[02/03] Outlook and E-mail

[SomethinCool]

Is it possible to create an Outlook COM Add-in where you can click a toolbar button and a form displays. On this form, would it be able to manipulate the e-mail and attachments on the local machine? For instance, I create a toolbar that has a button on it and a windows form displays. The form should then retrieve the attachments from the highlighted email in the inbox and then email the mail server. Is it possible to do all of this?

[18experience]

My company sends email using MailBee. It is a third part emailing component. It isn't free, but there is a trial version. You can find it at afterlogic.com.

[SomethinCool]

Well, I know that the .net framework has built in SMTP (but they didn't implement POP3 ), but I was wondering more if it was possible to read the email that was in the persons inbox through Outlook.

I'm using a POP3 connector library right now though, but for my add-in to work, the user must select the email in their inbox so the application knows what email to read.

[kleinma]

look into outlook automation....

you can reference the outlook object library.

There are plenty of samples on the web that will illustrate this.

[SomethinCool]

Do I add this object library though the Add References dialog box in Visual Studio?

[kleinma]

yes, it would be in the COM tab of the references.