Does anyone know how to receive email programmatically in VB.NET? Or at least point me in the right direction. I found documentation on sending email in the System.Web.Mail namespace, however there are no objects or methods for connecting to a mailserver and checking for received email. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Receiving Email in .NET
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PankajBanga
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This might help you guys !!!
HOW TO: Retrieve Unread Messages from Inbox by Using Outlook Object Model in Visual Basic .NET
HOW TO: Retrieve Unread Messages from Inbox by Using Outlook Object Model in Visual Basic .NET
Technocratic
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Thanks PankajBanga, that helped me too.
One further question though, how can the emails be marked as read?
in VB6 it was just something like:
TheItems.Item(Counter).UnRead = False
but I don't see any properties or methods on the Item in VB.NET to accomplish the same thing.
In fact the only thing that pops up for Item is GetType.
I must be missing something...
One further question though, how can the emails be marked as read?
in VB6 it was just something like:
TheItems.Item(Counter).UnRead = False
but I don't see any properties or methods on the Item in VB.NET to accomplish the same thing.
In fact the only thing that pops up for Item is GetType.
I must be missing something...
panka/techno:
thanks for posting that link Panka. We'd looked at that option already, but had to dismiss it because you can only use the Outlook object model IF Outlook is actually installed on the client machine (else it becomes a license issue).
Techno, from everything I've read you have to handle marking emails as read/unread within your own application. The object model for the messages doesn't handle that.
Thanks,
D'Arcy
thanks for posting that link Panka. We'd looked at that option already, but had to dismiss it because you can only use the Outlook object model IF Outlook is actually installed on the client machine (else it becomes a license issue).
Techno, from everything I've read you have to handle marking emails as read/unread within your own application. The object model for the messages doesn't handle that.
Thanks,
D'Arcy
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