Extract email attachment from Exchange server

[jcaulder]

Can anyone provide an example of connecting to an Exchange Server (to a specific account) and extracting email attachments from any unread messages using vb.net 2.0?

We receive Excel attachments daily from vendors that contain scheduling information. Currently, it is a manual process to save each attachment to a directory and rename it with current date.

I am trying to automate this process. I can do it quite easily from the Outlook client, just don't know how to do it directly from Exchange server. Any ideas?

Thanks!

J

 

[phfle1]

I have the same question, but for vbscript.

 

[Sorwen]

I've not tried to do this yet. The only thing I can do is maybe point you in a direction. A lot of Email things can be done with the System.Net.Mail namespace (vb2005). You might look there and see if it has anything you can use until someone can give you a better answer.

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[jcaulder]

The only thing I could find was that it was very difficult. I created a .NET app that uses Outlook directly and extracts the email attachment, saves them to a folder, then deletes the email.

The down side is that Outlook must always be running but I put it on a server and included it in the startup folder.

Not ideal but it was quick and easy and has solved the problem for now until I can revisit it later.

J

 

[onpnt]

I have only worked on lotus from .NEt but after googleing this it looks pretty easy.

Several different methods

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/gmcdoexmail.asp

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/c/programming/archives/reading-email-using-mapi-in-vbnet-5855

There a bank of examples here

http://www.outlookcode.com/

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