How to get email body using EWS?

Question

I'm getting emails from Outlook Inbox to display on an Email Search Screen, based on filters (Sender, Subject, Message).

I'm able to get all but the body of the E-mail:

OutlookRepository.cs:

public FindItemsResults<Item> GetEmails(string loginUsuario, string de, string assunto, string conteudo, WellKnownFolderName pasta = WellKnownFolderName.Inbox)
        {
            ExchangeService service = GetExchangeService(loginUsuario);

            var inbox = Folder.Bind(service, WellKnownFolderName.Inbox);

            SearchFilter sf = null;

            // Search by Sender
            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(de))
                sf = new SearchFilter.SearchFilterCollection(LogicalOperator.And, new SearchFilter.ContainsSubstring(EmailMessageSchema.From, de));

            // Search by Subject
            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(assunto))
                sf = new SearchFilter.SearchFilterCollection(LogicalOperator.Or, new SearchFilter.ContainsSubstring(EmailMessageSchema.Subject, assunto));

            // Search by Body
            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(conteudo))
                sf = new SearchFilter.SearchFilterCollection(LogicalOperator.Or, new SearchFilter.ContainsSubstring(EmailMessageSchema.Body, conteudo));

            var view = new ItemView(100);

            var emails = service.FindItems(pasta, sf, view);

            return emails;
        }

On return "emails", Body throws a exception: Body = '(new System.Linq.SystemCore_EnumerableDebugView(emails).Items[0]).Body' threw an exception of type 'Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceObjectPropertyException'

EmailController.cs:

public JsonResult PesquisarEmails(string de, string assunto, string conteudo)
        {
            FindItemsResults<Item> emails = ServiceFactory.GetService<IComunicacaoService>(true).RecuperarEmails(UsuarioAutenticado.Funcionario.Login, de, assunto, conteudo);

            var lista = new List<EmailFormatado>();

            foreach (Item email in emails)
            {
                lista.Add(new EmailFormatado()
                { 
                    DataEmail = email.DateTimeReceived.FormatarDataCompleta(),
                    Remetente = (email as EmailMessage).From.Address,
                    AssuntoEmail = email.Subject,
                    Descricao = email.TextBody
            });
            }

            return Json(lista, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
        }

Tryed to use "email.TextBody" and "email.Body" but it's throws a exception: email.TextBody = 'email.TextBody' threw an exception of type 'Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceObjectPropertyException'

Any help?

Glen Scales Glen Scales · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-24T23:01:23

The findItem operation only returns a subset of Item properties and the Body isn't returned (the from.address also isn't) see https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/office-developer-exchange-docs/blob/master/docs/exchange-web-services/email-properties-and-elements-in-ews-in-exchange.md so what you will need in your code is either a Load of each Item (bad idea from a performance perspective) or a LoadPropertiesFromItems eg something like

service.LoadPropertiesForItems(emails, PropertySet.FirstClassProperties);

How to get email body using EWS?

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