How to 'Copy' NOT 'Move' Outlook Mail Message to Another Folder in That Inbox

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Hello Everyone,

How can I copy an email message(s) in Outlook. I don’t want to move them, just copy from the Inbox to another sub-folder.

I assume I begin by picking up the messages, then do a ‘for each’ email in messages, … (need help here)

Thanks!

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Use this as a last resort

  1. Send to Self

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  1. Move to Subfolder

This way it will be duplicated, but again the Mail in the Inbox has to be unread.

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Thank you. Hope there’s another solution out there!

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Sorry, but how to accomplish #2? I thought I knew, but that doesn’t seem to work. You say the email will be duplicated. I’m ok with the duplication.

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Any other thoughts on this?!

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I ended up solving the issue by using “Invoke PowerShell” activity and wrote a custom script to copy emails based on subject. You can also specify based on EmailID, From, BCC, etc.

Emails are being copied from Inbox\SubFolder to SentItems\TEMP, where “Email_Subject” is a variable being passed into the PS code.

Hope someone else finds some use in this!

$outlook = New-Object -comobject outlook.application; 

$Inbox = $outlook.GetNamespace('MAPI').GetDefaultFolder(6); 
$subFolders =  $Inbox.Folders | ? {$_.FolderPath.EndsWith('SubFolder')};

$SendItems = $outlook.GetNamespace('MAPI').GetDefaultFolder(5); 
$subFolders2 = $SendItems.Folders | ? {$_.FolderPath.EndsWith('TEMP')};
$Final = $subFolders.Items | ForEach-Object {If ($_.Subject -Like '*"+Email_Subject+"*'){$_.Copy().Move($subFolders2)}}
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