Google Group App Script

[Ali Kanani]

Hello Everyone,

I need to write a script that selects all emails (posts) older than 90 days in a Google group and moves them to another group. Is this possible to do?

Highly appreciate your time

Ali

[Alexander Ivanov]

Hi Ali!

I think it's not possible. As I see a group is an end point of receiving the letter. It is not quite clear why this point changes after 90 days.

Sorry if I got you wrong.

Best wishes!

[Ali Kanani]

Let's make it simpler. There is a "Move" action in Google Groups to move a topic or an email to another Google Groups. I am trying to write a script for this matter. The API for Google Groups is really limited.

https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/reference/groups

[Romain Vialard]

Sorry, no, this "Move" action is not supported by the API.

There are several APIs available for Google Groups:

• An API to create / list / delete groups (the one you mentioned)
• An API to edit several groups settings (mostly group permissions like who can add members, who can post messages,...)
• An API to migrate messages to a group / create posts

But there's no API to interact with messages in a specific group (and thus no API to move a message from one group to another).

You could try to use the Gmail API to answer your need:

• Subscribe to receive all emails / posts in a Gmail inbox.
• Use the Gmail API to read the Gmail inbox and search for emails sent to the group older than 90 days and not already processed.
• Forward those emails / posts to the email address of your second group.

In that case though, you will simply copy the posts to your second group and not move them (so they will still be visible in the first group). 

[Jonathan Butler]

Don't the posts show up as an email? Wouldn't you be able to create a label for all posts that come in a specific group through Gmail? Then get the emails with GmailApp and pull the emails in the order in a list with the posters and responses.  You can then create the items yourself in a new group. 

Of course, the emails would be yours but you could list the original posters. To add an item to the new group just email the new group email with the subject stolen from the thread you're archiving. The system from what it seems is just built off of regular email. 

I do not know how you delete posts through Google Groups because I have never been the admin of a group. If all else fails, you can do that manually.

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