Problem reading other peoples inboxes in SAP

Question

Hi!
I've read the posts on the mail subject but none of them apply to my problem. That's why I'm posting a new topic.
My problem is this:
The customer wants a program to run on the mailboxes of employees and send the employee an e-mail (to outlook) if they receive a mail in SAP inbox with a link to the item in question.
I use standard SAP API's for this:
SO_USER_READ_API1 - to find the users inboxfolder ID
SO_FOLDER_READ_API1 - To read the contents of the inbox folder and to return the subject heading of e-mail in SAP Inbox.
However, SO_FOLDER_READ_API1 only returns the e-mails belonging to current user. I.e. I run this program as a job (SM37) with a user that has SAP_ALL and SAP_NEW. The user is called 'WF-BATCH'. The program returns 0-zero-mails as this user does not have any e-mails in SAP Inbox. If I run the job as myself, it returns my e-mails and I find that my user is not authorized to access other peoples inboxes.
But, surely, a user with SAP_ALL and SAP_NEW should have the authorization to do that?
Has anybody got any ideas on how I should proceed? Alternatively, does anybody know what tables mail items are stored in - SO_USER_READ_API1 gives me the userID and FolderID and with this information I should be able to find e-mails if only I knew what tables they are stored in....
Thank you in advance for helping me out
- Njå

Answer 1

Hi Njal,
1. To honour privacy concerns,
    SAP won't allow to read other peoples inboxes
    thru FMs directly .
2. In the FM, (2-4 levels inside)
   the system checks the
   current user name and specified user name(for inbox)
3. If they match, only then it provides the result.
4. For your requirement,
   u will have to copy the FM
   and accordingly over ride the code
   to check user name mentioned in point 2.
regards,
amit m.