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Read and Parse All Emails in a Lotus Notes Account

I need to be able to open a Lotus Notes account, cycle through and read data and attachments from all new emails in that account's inbox. How is this done in C#?

So far, I've managed to successfully get a count of messages in the account inbox:
 
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using Domino;
 
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page 
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
NotesSession session = new NotesSession();
session.Initialize("mypassword");
NotesDatabase db = session.GetDatabase("Server", "mailaccount", false);
NotesView mailView = db.GetView("($Inbox)");
msgCount = mailView.EntryCount;
label1.Text = mailView.EntryCount.ToString();
}
}
 
-Not sure how to continue.

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mbonaci

Here is an example of going through all view/folder's documents and all its fields:

//Code snippet for iterating through the views and fetching data
//
    NotesViewEntryCollection notesViewCollection = LotusNotesView.AllEntries;
    for( int rowCount = 1; rowCount <= notesViewCollection.Count; rowCount++ )
    {
        
        //Get the nth entry of the selected view according to the iteration.
        NotesViewEntry viewEntry = notesViewCollection.GetNthEntry( rowCount );
        //Get the first document of particular entry.
        NotesDocument document =  viewEntry.Document;    
            
        object documentItems = document.Items;  
        Array itemArray1 = (System.Array)documentItems;
        
        for( int itemCount=0 ; itemCount< itemArray1.Length; itemCount++ )
        {
            NotesItem notesItem = (Domino.NotesItem)itemArray1.GetValue( itemCount );
        
            //compare field value with specific value
            if( notesItem.Text !=null )   
            {
                if( (notesItem.Text.ToUpper()).StartsWith( "CONTACT" ))
                {
                    Contact contact = new Contact(); 
                    for( int icount=0 ; icount< itemArray1.Length; icount++ )
                    {
                        NotesItem searchedNotesItem = (Domino.NotesItem)itemArray1.GetValue( icount );
                        string FieldName = searchedNotesItem.Name.ToString();
                        //For FirstName
                        
                        if( searchedNotesItem.Name == "FirstName" ) 
                            contact.FirstName= searchedNotesItem.Text; 
                            
                        //For LastName
                        
                        if( searchedNotesItem.Name == "LastName" ) 
                            contact.LastName = searchedNotesItem.Text;     
                        //For Office Phone Number
                        
                        if( searchedNotesItem.Name == "OfficePhoneNumber" ) 
                            contact.OfficePhoneNumber = searchedNotesItem.Text;    
                        
                        if( searchedNotesItem.Name  == "InternetAddress" ) 
                            contact.EmailId = searchedNotesItem.Text; 
                    }//end for
                    contactsList.Add( contact );
                    break;
                }//End if
            }
        }
    }

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devo00

ASKER

This lets me access the contacts data, but I need to parse out data (body, subject, sender, etc) from emails themselves. Seems like an easy thing to do with the code above, I just don't know the sytax for Lotus objects.

devo00

ASKER

Also, I get this error:
CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Contact' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

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mbonaci

And forget Contacts, the code was just an example which used someone that had class Contacts defined somewhere...

devo00

ASKER

Excellent resources given

mbonaci

Glad I could help :)