Microsoft 365: Copy, Move, Reply and Delete emails with the Microsoft Graph API
To access the data in Microsoft 365 like emails, Microsoft is deprecating Basic authentication for IMAP and POP3 and is increasingly promoting the Graph API.
From v19 R8, you now have new built-in commands in 4D NetKit to natively automate Microsoft 365 emails operations, such as copy, move, reply and delete emails.
Microsoft 365: Receive Emails with the Microsoft Graph API
To access the data in Microsoft 365 like emails, Microsoft is deprecating Basic authentication for IMAP and POP3 and is increasingly promoting the Graph API.
4D v19 R3 brought the 4D Netkit component to manage the OAuth 2.0 connection and the mail sending through the Graph API.
In the v19 R8, we add new commands to receive emails and list your mailbox folders.
Microsoft 365: Send Emails
We know the importance of sending emails, and the fact that it’s a common task in today’s applications. Many people working with Office 365 have asked us for an API to send emails via the Microsoft Graph API. The OAuth 2.0 feature was a prerequisite for connecting to the Microsoft server and for introducing commands to retrieve user information. We are glad to proceed with email management, starting with the send email command.
4D and Microsoft 365 access
In the 4D v18 R6, 4D introduced OAuth 2.0 authentication to access emails through IMAP, SMTP, or POP3 transporters. Starting with 4D v19 R3, 4D continues to implement OAuth 2.0 protocol and provides a way to request easily by programming a token from the Microsoft identity platform to connect to the API for Microsoft 365.
Create, delete, and rename mailboxes with IMAP
The Mail feature, a huge feature set. The first part was released with 4D v17 R4, and since then we have delivered more and more functionalities.
4D v19 is no exception, as it brings new functions to help you manage your mailboxes by programming. That includes creating, renaming, and deleting mailboxes. A mailbox is displayed as a folder in email clients such as Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail.
Manage IMAP flags
To allow your solution to smoothly integrate with other email clients, you often need to add information such as “already seen” or “urgent”. The IMAP protocol allows you to associate a list of flags with a message to manage this additional information. 4D v18 R6 includes a set of functions for the IMAP Transporter object to add or remove IMAP flags.
Save emails in a specific mailbox
When you send emails from 4D, your customers might expect to get a copy in the “Sent” mailbox displayed by Outlook or Apple Mail. For this, 4D v18 R6 has a new command for you. Say hello to the new IMAP transporter append() function.
Connect your mail transporters with an OAuth 2.0 token
Lately, email servers on the web have started to move to OAuth 2.0 authentication to increase security. Starting with 4D v18 R6, 4D provides a way to set the OAuth 2.0 authentication mode of a connection. Keep reading for the details!
Copy, move, and delete emails with IMAP
Sometimes you need to save certain emails in dedicated mailboxes and other times you want to delete certain emails to keep up your INBOX tidy. The three new functions we’ve added to the IMAP transporter, copy(), move(), and delete() make this a breeze!
Search emails with IMAP protocol
Sometimes you need to find all of the unread emails on your mail server and download them to display them to your client. The searchMails method does it for you! It uses the IMAP search protocol which is done entirely on the server-side. This means that it’s fast and allows you to retrieve only the desired emails.
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