[BBDev47]

Hello,

We will be detecting a user's identity in the organization and the recipients on a new mail before it's sent, and if it's going from certain parties to others, we will challenge them with a few questions to answer on the nature of the email.
Depending on the answers, we want to classify the email programmatically, and then pick that classification up and use MS Exchange Transport Rules to copy to one or another archive based on Exchange's message classification abilities.

The key question at this point is, is it possible in an api to set a classification?
The process of BB admin creation of classifications is outlined on pp 180-182 here
132803_229461_bes5_d_admin.pdf

and the api has IT policy rules exposed, but it is not clear to me if the api currently enables one to programmatically set a stored classification.

But may I ask you,

1) Do you think getString(int id), as in the api link below, is going to return me a particular policy that I could somehow apply to the outgoing email before allowing it to be sent?

2) Would there be a logical place to store the policy in the email? Appending to the subject or body and then stripping on the Exchange server (after using it in Exchange's Transport Rule scheme to determine the archival place) seems hackish.

JDE 4.5.0 API Reference: Class ITPolicy

Ridiculous I am not allowed to post url's without having ten posts...

[pooja.a.maheshwari]

Can you clarify this more. Are you looking for pushing default/user-defined attributes through IT Policy to the user's device and then based on those values, performing some classification?

[pooja.a.maheshwari]

For 1), getString and other get* provide you value for specified IT Policy attribute.

For 2), an attachment may be useful without disturbing any user data.

[BBDev47]

Thank you for your reply.
To try to clarify, we are working to satisfy the desire to have certain emails available in an archive, those that the sender agrees constitute information which can then be available on immediate demand. This is part of a large current effort called eDiscovery en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_discovery underway these days for making information readily available.

I am hoping that one of set of message classification strings can be maintained in the BB database in and be set somewhere in the mail object based on a sender's response to a set of custom dialog choices.

Then MS Exchange Transport Rules allow actions like routing to take place based on MS's classifications. If those are also stored as the same strings, we can copy the emails to one of many archives based on which message classification string was set on the device. This way the same system on BB's can be used that can also govern messages coming through Outlook, where we can use the same classification strings before users send messages from there.

The question is, is there a good place to store the classification in the BB mail object. The header?

Thanks, it sounds like you agree that the getString(int) can return the message classifications an admin sets in the policy database.

[pooja.a.maheshwari]

Yes, getString returns the policy database data.

For the e-mails, BB doesn't seem to have a direct field for user-defined attribute/header fields. You may want to use the name field of Message for appending specific information to it. Something like: messageName(customClassificationHeader).

[BBDev47]

The api for mail looks pretty rich.
Looking at the mail and MIME objects, it might be possible to add a MIME part to the header of the mail message that would contain the classification

net.rim.blackberry.api.mail.MimeBodyPart
addHeader(name,value) inherited from the BodyPart class