Recieving E-Mail in Access

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I need to build a form in Access that will receive an E-Mail.
I need to click on a command button, which will receive an E-mail,
Unzip It and then open the Database.
Is this possible, and if so how would I do it?
Thanks
DS
 
I don't understand what you mean. I can see clicking a button to "SEND" and
email, but how would you "RECEIVE" one? Where would Access get the email
from? Once received, they would unzip it and open a database? Aren't they
already in a database?

Who sends this email? Who do they send it to?
 
Rick said:
I don't understand what you mean. I can see clicking a button to "SEND" and
email, but how would you "RECEIVE" one? Where would Access get the email
from? Once received, they would unzip it and open a database? Aren't they
already in a database?

Who sends this email? Who do they send it to?
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Rick I have the send E-Mail from Access done. That works fine. I have
3 other sites that are going to E-Mail there mdb file to me. I would
like to open each one of them, grab the records that are needed and
place them into another mdb file. The thing is I don't want to use
oulook or anyhing like it. I want to do it within access.
Thanks
DS
 
DS said:
Thanks, I'llcheck it out!
DS
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Just an update, all I really need is to receive an E-mail within in
Access and save the attachment to a directory, any help appreciated.
Thanks
DS
 
hi,
Just an update, all I really need is to receive an E-mail within in
Access and save the attachment to a directory, any help appreciated.
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You can "receive" an e-mail by
1. implementing a SMTP server
2. implementing a PO3/IMAP client
3. automate an existing email client
4. reading raw email/spool/mbox files.

The easiest solution is imho (3.) Outlook automation.

http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vb.htm


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