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[pkonnov]

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Where can I keep track of changes in Outlook functionality?
10/26/2020 - when a one-time appointment was rescheduled, the calendar item was not recreated, now it is, yes?

    def get_calendar_items(self) -> typing.List[CalendarItem]:
        sub_times = get_timedelta(minutes=10)
        items = self.account.calendar.filter(datetime_created__gte=self.now - sub_times). \
            order_by('-datetime_received')
        return items

and it comes again as a new element...

[ecederstrand]

I'm not sure what you are suggesting here. Can you elaborate? Is this a change in functionality in exchangelib? While Outlook is also a client of the EWS protocol, exchangelib does not rely on Outlook in any way.

[pkonnov]

Today I noticed that when rescheduling a meeting to another time, a new one is created, with the time to which it was rescheduled. In October 2020, this behavior was not observed.

[ecederstrand]

Are you rescheduling with exchangelib, or with Outlook?

[pkonnov]

Created with exchangelib, rescheduling with Outlook

[ecederstrand]

Ok. In that case I don't think it's something exchangelib can do anything about.

[kanns15]

ecederstrand/ALL, We are using excahngelib to classify the emails from shared mailbox, basically auto tag the emails with proper labels based on machine learning predicted values.
Below are the ideas we have to improvise the tool, wondering is it all possible in exchangelib, if so can u please refer me to those links,

1. email response time (how much time passed from when the email was viewed to when the reply is sent)
2. alerting/notifications for specific emails
3. Move important emails to top of the inbox queue.

[ecederstrand]

1. To my knowledge, it's not possible to know when a message was viewed, unless the sender requested read receipts and the client is configured to send them. The datetime_received field tells you when the email was received on the server, but that doesn't seem like what you want.
2. You can set that up already. Just create a filter that covers the emails you want to get notifications for, and run that filter regularly.
3. An inbox has no natural order of messages on the server. Outlook will order messages by received date descending, but that's a client-side setting. You can tell EWS to sort messages, and exchangelib allows you to sort by (almost) any field.

[Gil-nuriel]

[pkonnov]

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When you move the meeting days in the meeting cycle, a new meeting cycle is created. A letter arrives with the transfer of the meeting and a letter with a newly created meeting. Is that how it should be?

[pkonnov]

I assumed that the meeting days for this cycle of meetings would change. Without deleting the current cycle.

[pkonnov]

Is it possible to get from the letter with a new meeting, an indication that this meeting was created from another meeting cycle?

[ecederstrand]

Are you editing the master recurrence or a single occurrence? The send_meeting_invitations argument for CalendarItem.save() allows customizing how meeting updates are announced, but otherwise I think this is handled within the Exchange server.

How does this behave if you update the meeting from e.g. Outlook or OWA?

[pkonnov]

I am editing a single occurrence in an appointment loop.
Outlook.

1. A cycle of meetings is created. Every Wed, Fri for 2 months from 14-00 to 14-30.
2. Meetings is 24/26 - February, 3/5 10/12 17/19 ... - March ...
3. We click on March 17th. Click "Edit -> This and all following events"
4. Opens to the window with a meeting
5. We change the days of the event. For example, we add holding meetings on Thursdays.
6. Now we have meetings starting from March 17th on Tue Wed Thu
7. Click send.
8. A new meeting cycle is created from this meeting cycle.

I think this is the way it should be. 👍

[ecederstrand]

Ok, so it seems that Outlook changes the end date of the existing master recurrence and creates a new one for the remaining period. You could inspect the calendar items with exchangelib when doing the above, to verify that this is in fact what happens. If so, you could do the same in exchangelib. I'm not sure it's worthwhile to add the "Edit -> This and all following events" functionality to exchangelib - the building blocks are there, at least.

[Gil-nuriel]

It is possible to search for emails in all the inboxes I have aceess to?
e.g instead to specify primary_smtp_adress to search for a specific email with the subject "Test", I want to search all the emails with the subject "Tests" from ALL the inboxes of the organization

[Gil-nuriel]

Just to clarify the scenario I want to implement.
I want to delete specific email by sender/subject/email-id from ALL the mailboxes that match my query.
right now I'm able to do this action only from one user which I specify in the Account function as "primary_smtp_adress"

[Gil-nuriel]

Got it, thanks for the fast reply

[ecederstrand]

To delete items, you use the DeleteItem service: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/web-service-reference/deleteitem-operation It only supports deleting Item IDs from one mailbox at a time.

[Gil-nuriel]

there's a way to get a list of ALL the users I have access to?

[ecederstrand]

I don't think EWS supports this, unfortunately.