How to automatically save attachment of Outlook in our PC using C#.net application

Question

Hi friends, I have to download all attchment file in our PC folder. Is it Possible? If yes Plz give me solution or Idea

Suthish Nair · Answer

Add reference, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. using OutlookApplication = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook; OutlookApplication._Application olApp = new OutlookApp.ApplicationClass(); OutlookApplication._NameSpace olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI"); olNS.Logon("your default outlook profile name", Missing.Value, false, false); OutlookApplication._SyncObject _syncObject = null; _syncObject = olNS.SyncObjects[1]; _syncObject.Start(); System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(30000); _syncObject.Stop(); _syncObject = null; Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder myInbox = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox); OutlookApplication.Items attachItems = myInbox.Items; string filter = "@SQL=" + "urn:schemas:httpmail:subject LIKE '%HELLO%' AND " + "urn:schemas:httpmail:datereceived >= '" + (DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime()).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy") + "' AND " + "urn:schemas:httpmail:hasattachment = True"; attachItems = attachItems.Restrict(filter); if (attachItems.Count > 0) { foreach (OutlookApplication.MailItem mail in attachItems) { //mail.SenderEmailAddress; foreach (OutlookApplication.Attachment attach in mail.Attachments) { //check for Path.GetExtension(attach.FileName) == ".zip" if (attach.Size > 0 & attach.Type == OutlookApp.OlAttachmentType.olByValue) { //SAVE FILE } } } } attachItems = null; myInbox = null; olNS.Session.Logoff(); olNS.Logoff(); olNS = null; olApp.Quit(); olApp = null; GC.Collect(); GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();

khan nazir · Answer

I have add microsoft.office.interop.Outlook still I'm able to build the code, it through error. Kindly let me know which reference we have add into this.

Suthish Nair · Answer

Thank you, thinking of posting an article ..

Pravin Ghadge · Answer

Thank you Suthish You are simply great........

Suthish Nair · Answer

AM not in a position to provide a sample right now. You need to generate sql statement to query the outlook inbox. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa123730(v=exchg.65).aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/andrewdelin/archive/2005/05/11/416312.aspx

Pravin Ghadge · Answer

Thanks you very much for ur reply. I want to read only unread mails having attachment of .rar or .zip & then download that file only then make that mail as readable.so next time that attachmnt should not be downloaded. Plz.. show me sample. Thanking you Pravin

Suthish Nair · Answer

First of all list all the parameters needs to consider before downloading. 1. The mails must contain an attachment. 2. Only download attachment of these selected days. 3. Only download those having these file extensions.? I can show you sample.