VB.NET and Reading messages

[needy]

Interesting problem (at least I think so)...

Running ME Pro on a W2K server.

I am writing a Windows Service to monitor a mailbox folder and watch for incoming emails with a specific attachment from our sales force. Have all the file watching done to trigger the event. But I am a total newbie to Mail Enable.

When a valid email comes in I want to use the MEWebMail COM object to save out the attachment, then open it up and pull its contents directly into a db (again, I have this portion already coded - pulling data from the attachment that is).

What I need help on is how to get to my attachment from the email message? Documentation on this kind of thing is a little thin so I wondered if anyone else has done this and can give me a few pointers - specifically on how to use the MEWebMail.MailMessage GetAttachments(), GetMessage() and GetMessageDetails() functions.

Thanks.

[MailEnable]

Paul.

The WebMail ASP files for are readable from the following directory:

C:\Program Files\Mail Enable\BIN\WebMail\base\default\lang\EN\Forms\MAI

Specifically the file GetAttachment.asp outlines the construct:

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 	MessageID = Request("MessageID")
 	gPostOffice = Session("POSTOFFICE")
 	gUserName = Session("AUTH_USERNAME")
 	gPassword = Session("AUTH_PASSWORD")
 	FileName = Request("FileName")
 	oAttachment.PostOffice = gPostOffice
 	oAttachment.Username = gUsername
 	oAttachment.MessageID = MessageID
 	oAttachment.RelativeFolderPath = RelativeFolderPath 	
 	oAttachment.AttachmentFileName = FileName
 	Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=""" & oAttachment.AttachmentFileName & """"
 	oAttachment.GetAttachment
	Set oAttachment = Nothing 

You must call this from a web page though since the GetAttachment method implements the ASP type lib and after mime/uu/base64 decoding the attachment uses Response.BinaryWrite to send the attachment as a binary stream to the client.

There is no current means of accessing the attachment data by any other means other than in textual form (by opening the MAI file directly).

[MartynK]

Another way to do this is use the Microsoft routines. If you look at the MTAPE script you can see the basics how it is done. I have used this method from within VB.Net

[MailEnable]

Something that may interest/be relevant is the ability to poll for new messages (without needing to load the whole message list).

See as follows:

Set oMessages= CreateObject("MEWebMail.MailMessages")
oMessages.PostOffice = "MyPO"
oMessages.UserName = "MyMailbox"
NewMessageCount = oMessages.GetNewMessageCount()
set oMessages = nothing

[davemarks]

Is there still no way to be able to save an attachment from an image to a file on the server?

I'm looking at the classic ASP webmail sourecode trying to create a script in ASP to download emails from a given account and store them in a mysql database, along with the attachments saved into a directory on the server

I can download the emails fine, but struggling to get the attachments from teh email to a file on the server - downloading to the browser is easy using the getattachment code but this isn't what i want

thanks