Move a mail From Inbox to other folder

Question

How can I move a mail from Inbox to Trash. I tried with the following which didn't worked

using (Imap imap = new Imap())
{
imap.Connect("imap.example.com");   // or ConnectSSL for SSL
imap.UseBestLogin("user", "password");

imap.Select("[Gmail]/Trash");
List<long> uids = imap.Search(Flag.Seen);
foreach (long uid in uids)
{
    imap.MoveByUID(uid, "[Gmail]/Trash");
}
imap.Close();
}

Answer 1

If you want to move emails from INBOX to trash, select INBOX (source) folder first.

You may also use CommonFolders class to identify IMAP's server trash folder.

using (Imap imap = new Imap())
{
    imap.Connect("imap.example.com");   // or ConnectSSL for SSL
    imap.UseBestLogin("user", "password");

    // identify trash folder:
    CommonFolders common = new CommonFolders(imap.GetFolders());

    // select source folder:
    imap.SelectInbox();

    List<long> uids = imap.Search(Flag.Seen);

    // move to destination (note the bulk method usage):
    imap.MoveByUID(uids , common.Trash);

    imap.Close();
}

Comments

If I want to move from Trash to Inbox then also we need to select source folder as imap.SelectInbox(); or imap.SelectInbox(common.Trash);

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No, if you want to move from trash to INBOX: select trash first (imap.Select(common.Trash)) and use INBOX as MoveByUID parameter (imap.MoveByUID(uid, common.Inbox));