Grabbing Emails

8 Sep 2006 4:16 PM

sck10

Hello,

I am working on a new project where I need to:
1. open an email and then create an xml file from the email
2. open the xml file and parse the information.

I would like to be able to do the second step using a web page and then
duplicate it with a Windows Service. Does anybody know of some good links
on how to get started on something like this. I haven't created a Windows
Service before, so this will be new to me.

Thanks, sck10

8 Sep 2006 4:59 PM

Mark Rae

"sck10" <sck10@online.nospam> wrote in message
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> I would like to be able to do the second step using a web page and then
> duplicate it with a Windows Service. Does anybody know of some good links
> on how to get started on something like this.

1) Launch your Internet brower (e.g. IE, FireFox, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla
etc)

2) Navigate to http://www.google.com

3) Enter the text below in the box:

"C#" "windows service" tutorial

4) Hit the button

8 Sep 2006 7:35 PM

Rob MacFadyen

sck10,

Reading emails can be challenging. There are 3rd party tools for talking to
email servers to download emails, and there are 3rd part tools for parsing
emails.

Searching for "pop3 mime c#" should give a few reasonable hits.

One important feature is a decent debug mode. Diagnosis why a connection to
an email server isn't working can be challenging... having a debug mode that
shows the underlying protocol conversation is huge help.

There are some "gotcha's" with reading emails... it is not as simple as
Outlook makes it appear. The MIME standard is very very very very flexible.

Typically an email is sent either plain text or MIME. Plain text emails are
easy. MIME emails typically include one, two or more parts. It is not
unusual to see a plain text part and an html part. EMails with attachments
are always mime, and typical contain the plaintext/html portions in sort of
a sub message.

Outlook RTF format is not so bad anymore... there is generally a plain text
version of the message sent along as well. Outlook RTF format with embeded
attachments (eg. screen shots) are difficult to parse.

Good luck,

Rob MacFadyen

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"sck10" <sck10@online.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am working on a new project where I need to:
> 1. open an email and then create an xml file from the email
> 2. open the xml file and parse the information.
>
> I would like to be able to do the second step using a web page and then
> duplicate it with a Windows Service. Does anybody know of some good links
> on how to get started on something like this. I haven't created a Windows
> Service before, so this will be new to me.
>
> Thanks, sck10
>

8 Sep 2006 9:02 PM

sck10

Thanks Rob. Appreciate the help...

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"Rob MacFadyen" <rmacfadyen_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> sck10,
>
> Reading emails can be challenging. There are 3rd party tools for talking
> to email servers to download emails, and there are 3rd part tools for
> parsing emails.
>
> Searching for "pop3 mime c#" should give a few reasonable hits.
>
> One important feature is a decent debug mode. Diagnosis why a connection
> to an email server isn't working can be challenging... having a debug mode
> that shows the underlying protocol conversation is huge help.
>
> There are some "gotcha's" with reading emails... it is not as simple as
> Outlook makes it appear. The MIME standard is very very very very
> flexible.
>
> Typically an email is sent either plain text or MIME. Plain text emails
> are easy. MIME emails typically include one, two or more parts. It is not
> unusual to see a plain text part and an html part. EMails with attachments
> are always mime, and typical contain the plaintext/html portions in sort
> of a sub message.
>
> Outlook RTF format is not so bad anymore... there is generally a plain
> text version of the message sent along as well. Outlook RTF format with
> embeded attachments (eg. screen shots) are difficult to parse.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Rob MacFadyen
>
> "sck10" <sck10@online.nospam> wrote in message
> news:OmfdcI20GHA.4116@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am working on a new project where I need to:
>> 1. open an email and then create an xml file from the email
>> 2. open the xml file and parse the information.
>>
>> I would like to be able to do the second step using a web page and then
>> duplicate it with a Windows Service. Does anybody know of some good
>> links on how to get started on something like this. I haven't created a
>> Windows Service before, so this will be new to me.
>>
>> Thanks, sck10
>>
>
>