Get unique ID mail message

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Hello,

I am building an automation that deals with emails being dispatched to a queue to be processed later by another robot.

The emails are Google gmail messages and to the queue I want to upload the unique IDs for these emails because I want the robot to grab these emails at a later time, save the attachments and move the emails to another label.

I tried uploding the queue items with mailMessage.MessageId but when I tried retrieving the gmail emails by these message ids I got 0 results.

I also tried with mailMessage.Headers(“Message-ID”), mailMessage.Headers(“ID”), mailMessage.Headers(“UID”) and mailMessage.Headers(“Uid”) but these didn’t work, as they returned the email id as null.

Does anybody know how to get the unique id of a gmail message?

Thank you.

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instead of looking for a unique id… you can try to use the mailMessage.Headers(“Date”).ToString…
and this will be unique for sure(convert to CDate and get the complete date )

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Can’t 2 emails have the same date and time? What about batch emails?

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if you extract complete dateformat till the milliseconds - number will be unique for sure(even for the bulk mails)

you can refer below link for datetime conversation till milliseconds

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Okay, thank you. I will try this.

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let us know if it worked as expected.

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Hi, I got busy with work and I forgot to update this post. But yes, using your solution worked.