{"id":4186,"date":"2013-09-01T20:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2014-04-15T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T12:58:12","slug":"copy-to-public-folder-there-is-no-replica-for-that-mailbox-on-this-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/copy-to-public-folder-there-is-no-replica-for-that-mailbox-on-this-server","title":{"rendered":"Copy to public folder: “There is no replica for that mailbox on this server.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

When copying an mail from the personal folder to a Public folder, you may receive “There is no replica for that mailbox on this server.” error.<\/p>\n

This error is generated by Exchange server and unfortunately this is the Exchange limitation. Here’s Microsoft’s response to this problem:<\/p>\n

\nCopying from user mailboxes to public folders does not work with Exchange IMAP4.
\nYour users need to copy the message to a personal folder and then back up to the public folder (append) or forward it to an address that gets archived to a public folder.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Workaround<\/h2>\n

It seems the only way to workaround this is by downloading a message and uploading it to public folder. Important thing is that you don’t need to parse email message at all – you just download and upload raw eml data. Please also note that public folder may be in fact stored on a another IMAP server instance (different server address) – this is usually indicated during logon with REFERRAL error.<\/p>\n

\r\n\/\/ C#\r\n\r\nusing(Imap imap = new Imap())\r\n{\r\n    imap.Connect("imap.example.com");   \/\/ or ConnectSSL for SSL\r\n    imap.UseBestLogin("user", "password");\r\n\r\n    imap.SelectInbox();\r\n    List<long> uids = imap.Search(Flag.All);\r\n\r\n    foreach (long uid in uids)\r\n    {\r\n        var eml = imap.GetMessageByUID(uid);\r\n        IMail email = new MailBuilder().CreateFromEml(eml);\r\n\r\n        if (email.Subject.Contains("[REF"))\r\n            UploadToPublic(email);\r\n    }\r\n    imap.Close();\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n' VB.NET\r\n\r\nUsing imap As New Imap()\r\n\timap.Connect("imap.example.com")\t' or ConnectSSL for SSL\r\n\timap.UseBestLogin("user", "password")\r\n\r\n\timap.SelectInbox()\r\n\tDim uids As List(Of Long) = imap.Search(Flag.All)\r\n\r\n\tFor Each uid As Long In uids\r\n\t\tDim eml = imap.GetMessageByUID(uid)\r\n\t\tDim email As IMail = New MailBuilder().CreateFromEml(eml)\r\n\r\n\t\tIf email.Subject.Contains("[REF") Then\r\n\t\t\tUploadToPublic(email)\r\n\t\tEnd If\r\n\tNext\r\n\timap.Close()\r\nEnd Using\r\n<\/pre>\n
Here is the body of UploadToPublic <\/em>method:<\/p>\n
\r\n\/\/ C# code\r\n\r\nprivate void UploadToPublic(IMail email)\r\n{\r\n    using (Imap imap = new Imap())\r\n    {\r\n        imap.Connect("server");  \/\/ or ConnectSSL for SSL\r\n        imap.Login("user", "password");\r\n    \r\n        imap.UploadMessage("#Public\/Cases", email);\r\n    \r\n        imap.Close();\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n' VB.NET code\r\n\r\nPrivate Sub UploadToPublic(email As IMail)\r\n\tUsing imap As New Imap()\r\n\t\timap.Connect("server")\r\n\t\t' or ConnectSSL for SSL\r\n\t\timap.Login("user", "password")\r\n\r\n\t\timap.UploadMessage("#Public\/Cases", email)\r\n\r\n\t\timap.Close()\r\n\tEnd Using\r\nEnd Sub\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When copying an mail from the personal folder to a Public folder, you may receive “There is no replica for that mailbox on this server.” error. This error is generated by Exchange server and unfortunately this is the Exchange limitation. Here’s Microsoft’s response to this problem: Copying from user mailboxes to public folders does not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[21,28,77],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-dll","category-programming","tag-exchange","tag-imap","tag-imap-component"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}