Manage Help Scout mailboxes and folders via the API

domain: developer.helpscout.com · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Authenticate with a Bearer token obtained via the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow from /v2/oauth2/token.
  2. List all mailboxes your app has access to with GET /v2/mailboxes — note each mailbox 'id' and 'slug' for subsequent operations.
  3. Retrieve the folders within a specific mailbox with GET /v2/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/folders — folders include system defaults (Mine, Unassigned, Open, etc.) and custom folders.
  4. Create a custom folder within a mailbox with POST /v2/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/folders, supplying a 'name' for the folder.
  5. List conversations in a specific folder by calling GET /v2/conversations with 'mailbox' and 'folder' query params set to the relevant IDs.
  6. Move a conversation to a different folder with PATCH /v2/conversations/{conversationId} using a JSON Patch operation to update the 'folderId' field.

Known gotchas

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