Can't get sender email address with EWS Java API

Question

I am using EWS Java API 1.1.5. I am trying to get the email sender as follows:

ItemView view = new ItemView(10);
FindItemsResults<Item> findResults = service.findItems(
    WellKnownFolderName.Inbox, view);
    for (Item item : findResults.getItems()) {
        if (item instanceof EmailMessage) {
            String senderEmail = ((EmailMessage) item).getSender().getAddress();
            System.out.println("Sender Email: " + senderEmail);
        }
    }
);

But it always returns null. I also tried the following:

String senderEmail = ((EmailMessage) item).getFrom().getAddress();

But it also returns null. I can see that the email contains sender like:

Test User <[email protected]> 

It appears in the message and also when replying to the email.

Please advise how to fix this issue.

Marguerita

Using the .NET API, if you do not call Load (as per the Answer), the From and Sender for an internal e-mail are exchange addresses (RoutingType = "EX"). But if you call Load then they are SMTP addresses - yay. – Gurkha

Answer 1

found the solution, i have to use item.load(); before getting the sender email address.

Marguerita

Answer 2

While the above works perfectly, as an alternative, loading is not necessary if the search is done with the view of the properties, consider the code snippet

    ItemView view = new ItemView(100);
    view.getOrderBy().add(ItemSchema.DateTimeReceived, SortDirection.Descending);
    view.setPropertySet(new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.IdOnly, 
                                        ItemSchema.Subject,
                                        ItemSchema.DateTimeReceived, 
                                        EmailMessageSchema.From));
    
    SearchFilterCollection searchCollection=new SearchFilter.SearchFilterCollection();
    searchCollection.add(new SearchFilter.IsEqualTo(EmailMessageSchema.IsRead, !unreadEmailOnly));
    
    FindItemsResults<Item> result=exchangeService.findItems(WellKnownFolderName.Inbox, 
                                                            searchCollection, 
                                                            view);

Subsequently, EmailMessage.getFrom().getAddress() can be called.

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