meng_97
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reading e-mail attachments
how can I automatically open e-mail attachments in msexchange,one by one, that are in text form and insert the contents in a textbox where I can read the contents using MAPI? If you can answer this by October 6,1999(today's 10/4/1999) i'll be willing to part with you 300pts
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Hi, to be more specific, the following code uses the DLL I mentioned before to go through all the messages in the current users inbox and put the contents of the first attachement from each one into a text box called text1 on a form called form1.
You can modify it/clean it up to do what you want.
Dim EMailMessage As Message
Dim EMailSession As session
Dim EMailRecipient As Recipient
Dim EMailAttachment As Attachment
Dim EMailFolder As Folder
Dim SubFolder As Folder
Dim Attachement As Attachment
Dim Content As String
Dim Cnt As Long
' create a session then log on, supplying username and password
Set EMailSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session
' change the parameters to valid values for your configuration
EMailSession.Logon
Set EMailFolder = EMailSession.InfoStores("P
For Cnt = 1 To EMailFolder.Folders.Count
If EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt).N
Set SubFolder = EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt)
Exit For
End If
Next Cnt
For Cnt = 1 To SubFolder.Messages.Count
Set EMailMessage = SubFolder.Messages(Cnt)
If EMailMessage.Attachments.C
Set Attachement = EMailMessage.Attachments(1
Attachement.WriteToFile "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
Open "c:\temp\tmp1.atc" For Binary Shared As #1
Content = Space$(LOF(1))
Get #1, 1, Content
Close #1
Kill "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
Form1.Text1 = Form1.Text1 & Content
End If
Next Cnt
You can modify it/clean it up to do what you want.
Dim EMailMessage As Message
Dim EMailSession As session
Dim EMailRecipient As Recipient
Dim EMailAttachment As Attachment
Dim EMailFolder As Folder
Dim SubFolder As Folder
Dim Attachement As Attachment
Dim Content As String
Dim Cnt As Long
' create a session then log on, supplying username and password
Set EMailSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session
' change the parameters to valid values for your configuration
EMailSession.Logon
Set EMailFolder = EMailSession.InfoStores("P
For Cnt = 1 To EMailFolder.Folders.Count
If EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt).N
Set SubFolder = EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt)
Exit For
End If
Next Cnt
For Cnt = 1 To SubFolder.Messages.Count
Set EMailMessage = SubFolder.Messages(Cnt)
If EMailMessage.Attachments.C
Set Attachement = EMailMessage.Attachments(1
Attachement.WriteToFile "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
Open "c:\temp\tmp1.atc" For Binary Shared As #1
Content = Space$(LOF(1))
Get #1, 1, Content
Close #1
Kill "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
Form1.Text1 = Form1.Text1 & Content
End If
Next Cnt
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Hi Thanks very much for such a quick response, but could u please explain the codes? I mean just put comments on what it does I'm not good at reading codes, I'm more of concepts and ideas, nad is not very good at coding. And if your kind enough, could you please write some other codes in other ways? jut incase this one won;t work for me :) THANKS!!
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Hi Thanks very much for such a quick response, but could u please explain the codes? I mean just put comments on what it does I'm not good at reading codes, I'm more of concepts and ideas, nad is not very good at coding. And if your kind enough, could you please write some other codes in other ways? jut incase this one won;t work for me :) THANKS!!
I tried the Codes bu the declarations didn't work!
I tried the Codes bu the declarations didn't work!
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Edited text of question.
Sure. Sorry, I should have done that in the first place. The code wasn't very neat to begin with, so its no wonder you had trouble. Let me know if this is any better.
'Declare some object variable's we're going to need -
' we must reference the Microsoft Active Messaging DLL
' before this will work
Dim EMailMessage As Message
Dim EMailSession As session
Dim EMailAttachment As Attachment
Dim EMailFolder As Folder
Dim SubFolder As Folder
Dim Attachement As Attachment
'Declare a couple of primitive variables for holding
'strings/doing loops
Dim Content As String
Dim Cnt As Long
' create a session then log on, supplying username and
'password, or in our case just logon without (I Believe
' that lets us in under the current user)
Set EMailSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session
' change the parameters to valid values for your
'configuration - i.e, pass a user name and password if
'required
EMailSession.Logon
'Get the root EMail folder - in my case I use outlook
'for my MAPI client so its 'Personal Folders' - outlook
'express etc may use a different folder name, so it might
'be better just to use numeric indexes and select the
'first one, i.e
'Set EMailFolder = EMailSession.InfoStores(1)
'But for this example, I'll just use "Personal Folders"
Set EMailFolder = EMailSession.InfoStores("P
'For each sub folder in the root folder, check its name
'until we find the inbox
For Cnt = 1 To EMailFolder.Folders.Count
If EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt).N
'We found the inbox so set out subfolder variable
'and exit the loop
Set SubFolder = EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt)
Exit For
End If
Next Cnt
'Subfolder should now contain the object that is the
'inbox, but in a real system you'd check to see if sub
'folder was nothing before trying to use it
'Now, for each message in the inbox (subfolder)
For Cnt = 1 To SubFolder.Messages.Count
Set EMailMessage = SubFolder.Messages(Cnt)
'Check to see if the message has an attachement
If EMailMessage.Attachments.C
' Get the first attachement - note, in your case
'you may want to loop here from 1 to
'emailmessage.attachements
Set Attachement = EMailMessage.Attachments(1
'Save the contents of the attachment to a file (the
'only way I know of to read it)
Attachement.WriteToFile "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
'Open the file we saved
Open "c:\temp\tmp1.atc" For Binary Shared As #1
'Read the files contents
Content = Space$(LOF(1))
Get #1, 1, Content
Close #1
'Kill the file
Kill "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
'Put the contents of the attachment into the text box
Form1.Text1 = Form1.Text1 & Content
'Clean up our content variable
Content=vbnullstring
End If
Next Cnt
'Declare some object variable's we're going to need -
' we must reference the Microsoft Active Messaging DLL
' before this will work
Dim EMailMessage As Message
Dim EMailSession As session
Dim EMailAttachment As Attachment
Dim EMailFolder As Folder
Dim SubFolder As Folder
Dim Attachement As Attachment
'Declare a couple of primitive variables for holding
'strings/doing loops
Dim Content As String
Dim Cnt As Long
' create a session then log on, supplying username and
'password, or in our case just logon without (I Believe
' that lets us in under the current user)
Set EMailSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session
' change the parameters to valid values for your
'configuration - i.e, pass a user name and password if
'required
EMailSession.Logon
'Get the root EMail folder - in my case I use outlook
'for my MAPI client so its 'Personal Folders' - outlook
'express etc may use a different folder name, so it might
'be better just to use numeric indexes and select the
'first one, i.e
'Set EMailFolder = EMailSession.InfoStores(1)
'But for this example, I'll just use "Personal Folders"
Set EMailFolder = EMailSession.InfoStores("P
'For each sub folder in the root folder, check its name
'until we find the inbox
For Cnt = 1 To EMailFolder.Folders.Count
If EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt).N
'We found the inbox so set out subfolder variable
'and exit the loop
Set SubFolder = EMailFolder.Folders(Cnt)
Exit For
End If
Next Cnt
'Subfolder should now contain the object that is the
'inbox, but in a real system you'd check to see if sub
'folder was nothing before trying to use it
'Now, for each message in the inbox (subfolder)
For Cnt = 1 To SubFolder.Messages.Count
Set EMailMessage = SubFolder.Messages(Cnt)
'Check to see if the message has an attachement
If EMailMessage.Attachments.C
' Get the first attachement - note, in your case
'you may want to loop here from 1 to
'emailmessage.attachements
Set Attachement = EMailMessage.Attachments(1
'Save the contents of the attachment to a file (the
'only way I know of to read it)
Attachement.WriteToFile "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
'Open the file we saved
Open "c:\temp\tmp1.atc" For Binary Shared As #1
'Read the files contents
Content = Space$(LOF(1))
Get #1, 1, Content
Close #1
'Kill the file
Kill "c:\temp\tmp1.atc"
'Put the contents of the attachment into the text box
Form1.Text1 = Form1.Text1 & Content
'Clean up our content variable
Content=vbnullstring
End If
Next Cnt
The declarations didn't work ?
Did you include a reference to the DLL I said you needed ?
Did you include a reference to the DLL I said you needed ?
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