Attachment from Outlook

Using Outlook rules wizard and VB.NET how would I extract an attachment from an email? Once I have the file I will be importing it into SQL Server or Access.

Texas,

Did you find a solution for this problem?

I am wanting to do the same thing.
I know how to connect to the mailbox and I know how to check if the email has an attachment, just don't know how to display it/link to it and or save it or import it to my db?

See - http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=352571

I would be very grateful for any advise

Cheers Al

no idea to be honest.

i think i ended up having someone or something drop the file on the network then i imported it into sql.

Outlook code is almost the same in VB6 and VB.NET. I have allot of code examples on the Forums but here is one that should show you the mechanics and logic involved. Just customize to your needs. ;)

Outlook Attachments

Gangsta Y,

Thanks very much, I hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions.
I am looking to get the messages directly out of exchange and want to pass in different mailbox ID depending on which group the user who's logged in belongs to. Is this possible?

So it may be a sales mailbox or a marketing mailbox. Was hoping I could do something like -

VB Code:

'Set oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPILEVEL=Mailbox - Joe Bloggs")

I've managed to get your sample working, have commented out these lines, was getting a permissions error, plus I don't understand what they're supposed to be doing?

VB Code:

Set oMsg = oApp.CreateItemFromTemplate("C:\Item[" & i & "].msg")
oMsg.Attachments.Item(1).SaveAsFile ("C:\Item[" & i & "].log")
Kill "C:\Item[" & i & "].msg"

so am just saving the attachment using -

VB Code:

oAttach.SaveAsFile ("C:\" & oAttach.FileName)

On the side: Once I get this thing working in .Net I'll be moving it to ASP.NET

Cheers Al

Ok, here is how you can logon to opther mailboxes if you have permissions.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
'Add a reference to Outlook xx.0 object library
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Dim oApp As Outlook.Application
    Dim oNS As Outlook.Namespace
    oApp = New Outlook.Application
    oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    oNS.Logon "ProfileName", "Password", "ShowDialog", "NewSession"
End Sub

You dont need the CreateItemFromTemplate because it is just opening a saved message from the filesystem. The SaveAsFile you should provide a complete path or it will save to the temp dir. ;)

RobDog,

Thanks a whole bunch for that, do you know whether this will work if it's running on a web server with no one logged in?
I have a horrible feeling it won't... although with the method of connection that you've described above (passing in the username & pwd) it could work??

This is what I have so far, what do you think -

VB Code:

Private Sub btnSaveAttach_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSaveAttach.Click
        Dim oApp As New Outlook.Application
        Dim oNS As Outlook.NameSpace
        Dim oFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
        Dim oEmail As Outlook.MailItem
        Dim oAttachs As Outlook.Attachments
        Dim oAttach As Outlook.Attachment
        Dim i As Integer
 
        oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
        oFolder = GetFolder("Editorial\Inbox")
        For Each oEmail In oFolder.Items
            MessageBox.Show(oEmail.Subject)
 
            oAttachs = oEmail.Attachments
            For i = 1 To oAttachs.Count
                oAttach = oAttachs.Item(i)
                MessageBox.Show(oAttach.DisplayName & " " & oAttach.FileName)
                If oAttach.FileName = "Extensions.doc" Then
                    oAttach.SaveAsFile("C:\" & oAttach.FileName)
                End If
                oAttach = Nothing
            Next
        Next oEmail
        oAttachs = Nothing
        oEmail = Nothing
        oFolder = Nothing
        oNS = Nothing
        ' Exit Outlook - shuts it down
        'oApp.Quit
        oApp = Nothing
    End Sub
 
    Public Function GetFolder(ByVal sFolderPath As String) As MAPIFolder
        ' folder path needs to be something like
        '   "Public Folders\All Public Folders\Company\Sales"
        ' source - [url]http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/getfolder.htm[/url]
        Dim objApp As Outlook.Application
        Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
        Dim colFolders As Outlook.Folders
        Dim objFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
        Dim arrFolders() As String
        Dim i As Long
        'On Error Resume Next
 
        sFolderPath = Replace(sFolderPath, "/", "\")
        arrFolders = Split(sFolderPath, "\")
        objApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
        objNS = objApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
        objFolder = objNS.Folders.Item(arrFolders(0))
        If Not objFolder Is Nothing Then
            For i = 1 To UBound(arrFolders)
                colFolders = objFolder.Folders
                objFolder = Nothing
                objFolder = colFolders.Item(arrFolders(i))
                If objFolder Is Nothing Then
                    Exit For
                End If
            Next
        End If
 
        GetFolder = objFolder
        colFolders = Nothing
        objNS = Nothing
        objApp = Nothing
    End Function

I dont believe it will run if the system is locked. What you would be better off doing is writting a web service or plain service. ;)

Right looks like I'll have to look into the web service thing then

This code works great, albeit a bit slow, but I can't work out how to get the attachments, there is a flag in the returned dataset which marks whether there is an attachment or not. How to get them that's the question?

VB Code:

Private Sub btnOpenInbox_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnOpenInbox.Click
        Dim ds As New DataSet
        Dim dt As DataTable
 
        Try
            'SELECT Subject, Contents FROM Inbox
            Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM Inbox", _
                                            "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Outlook 9.0;" & _
                                            "MAPILEVEL=Mailbox - Jo Smith|;PROFILE=MS Exchange Settings;" & _
                                            "TABLETYPE=0;DATABASE=C:\WINNT\Temp")
 
            da.Fill(ds, "Outlook")
            dt = ds.Tables("Outlook")
            DataGrid1.DataSource = dt
        Catch exc As OleDbException
            Dim OleDBError1 As OleDbError
            For Each OleDBError1 In exc.Errors
                Console.WriteLine(OleDBError1.Message)
            Next
        End Try
 
    End Sub

Thanks for all your help

Cheers Al

Nope, not at the folder level. You would need to check each item in the folder for the existance of it in the Attachments collection of the item. ;)