Search Email via SOAP message

[bravedreamer]

Hi

I want to search through an Email account. Normally I use the IMAP protocol to access the account and filter the emails according to some properties. Unfortunately, I saw that Zimbra does not support the filtering on all header properties. Therefore, I have to switch to SOAP (at least I hope to solve my problem with it). But I don't know how to use it.

Could anyone tell me the command (SearchRequest?) that I have to issue to the Zimbra Server? Is it even possible to filter out with SOAP some emails?

Hope you can get me some hints!

cheers

[dkarp]

Before you go further, note that ZCS supports IMAP "SEARCH HEADER" searches as of 5.0.5 (see Bug 7384 – IMAP search on non-indexed header returns error). Do you need something besides that?

[bravedreamer]

Hey! Thanks for the hint!

Actually, it doesn't help me much because I don't know which version the server has and/or if it is possible to upgrade it easily. Therefore, I have to deal with the situation and implement a solution with SOAP.

But is my problem solvable with SOAP? I mean, if the problem are some missing index tables then I think a SOAP approach wouldn't fit too. Please, could somebody confirm that?

thanks

[dkarp]

Well, why not just test and see? Telnet to port 143, 001 LOGIN <username> <password>, 002 SELECT INBOX, 003 SEARCH HEADER "Content-Disposition" attachment. Note that you need to pick an oddball header to test with, as Zimbra always supported searching on Subject, To, From, CC, and Message-ID.