Navigate to Draft email created through imap.UploadMessage

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Question: I create a draft email, with this:

imap.UploadMessage("[Gmail]/Drafts", email);

Now I want my program to navigate to that draft email in my browser. Does UploadMessage have anyway to return the ID or URL for my draft message?

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Use CommonFolder class as draft folder may have a different name if Gmail is configured to use different UI language:

CommonFolders folders = new CommonFolders(imap.GetFolders());
imap.Select(folders.Draft);
imap.UploadMessage(email);

I want my program to navigate to that draft email in my browser.
Yes, this is possible.

You need to obtain Gmail thread ID for this message (X-GM-THRID Gmail's extension to IMAP):

long uploaded = (long)imap.UploadMessage(email);
MessageInfo info = client.GetMessageInfoByUID(uploaded);
decimal threadId = info.Envelope.GmailThreadId;

Than convert that to hex:

string threadIdAsHex = threadId.ToString("x");

and build the url:

string url = string.Format(
        "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#draft/{0}",
        threadIdAsHex);

References:
- https://www.limilabs.com/blog/common-imap-folders
- https://www.limilabs.com/blog/create-gmail-url-id-via-imap

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