About Exchange Server Folders

Exchange Server stores messages in folders. They are MAPI folders. It would be useful to know how one could access Exchange Server folders. For example:

How do I access properties of a message in a folder?
How do I copy a message from one folder to another?
How do I delete a message (or messages) from a folder?

If you were using simplified (and programmer-friendly) messaging environment such as CDO, Visual Basic or Outlook Automation, the task would be easy. Perhaps, it would be possible to describe all aspects of it in one short topic. In case of raw MAPI programming, even with help of EDK, this is not obvious. There is a need in code examples. This chapter is supposed to present such examples. After examining sample code you should be able to understand the concepts. Perhaps you will be able to use these samples for your own situations after adding proper error handling. The examples as presented simply throw exceptions in case of any unexpected condition. Obviously, this is not enough for production code.
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