attachment in email as parameter to method call

[Ludwig]

Hi,

we receive e-mails with attachments; and an attachment is nothing more
that an xml file.

Question: how can I get this attachment each time a mail arrives and
pass it as a parameter to some remote method ProcessXml(XmlDocument
xml)?

I suppose that the mailserver is involved here but I don't know how
this should be done?

Thanks,

kind regards,
Ludwig

 

[Moty Michaely]

Hi,

we receive e-mails with attachments; and an attachment is nothing more
that an xml file.

Question: how can I get this attachment each time a mail arrives and
pass it as a parameter to some remote method ProcessXml(XmlDocument
xml)?

I suppose that the mailserver is involved here but I don't know how
this should be done?

Thanks,

kind regards,
Ludwig

Dear Ludwig,

Is there any way you parse the arrived mail?

Moty

 

[Ludwig]

Dear Ludwig,

Is there any way you parse the arrived mail?

Moty

Hi Moty,
well that's in fact my problem.... how can I parse a mail
attachment.... if I know how to do that, I can create an XmlDocument
from the attachment... but where and how is it done? On the
mailserver?
thanks,
Ludwig

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Ludwig,

Well, you need to do
1) Receive Mail
2) Extract attach
3) Process your XML attach

..NET has no built-in POP3 suppot, so u need to implement it by your own
I recommend to start from this article http://www.codeproject.com/cs/internet/despop3client.asp
where author describes how to do this

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L> that's in fact my problem.... how can I parse a mail
L> attachment.... if I know how to do that, I can create an XmlDocument
L> from the attachment... but where and how is it done? On the
L> mailserver?
L> thanks

 

[chanchitodata]

Ludwig,

Try to use CDO to Recieve and extract the attachment.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms526298.aspx


/Rodrigo Alvarez