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Mailkit: Could I get the original sender from a forwarded e-mail?

I'm managing forwarded e-mails and noting that if I perform a TextSearchQuery(SearchTerm.FromContains, "[email protected]") I just get the UniqueIds of the forwarder, not the original sender of the e-mail.

I know I could dive into the TextBody or the HtmlBody and look at the "from", but this could vary depending on the language of the client and so on, so I was wondering if is there any method to perform that "deep SearchQuery".

There are so many SearchTerm but a SearchTerm.OriginalFromContains could be interesting, if it doesn't exists yet!

Thanks.

Solution

  • There's no way to do what you want as IMAP does not support it. MailKit's search API's are limited to the search capabilities of the IMAP protocol (which, unfortunately, are rather limited).