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Hi,
We have a pop3 email server and several accounts. There is one specific account which receives some important .csv files from clients as attachments. I am writing a program which reads these mails and extract the attachment.
For heavens sake, can someone tell me how to do this in c++. You dont have to provide a code, but atleast direct me where I should start.
I used Simple MAPI, but it only reads mails from the profiles created in your machine (or the machine where u install the program).
And my program should not expect any profile created already for that email account. My program should be a command line utility for reading mails that you provide, server name, user name, pwd and other necessary info and hit enter - it should copy all the mail attachments to any folder that either u specify or it is configured somewhere.
[After a week long reading, I am so fed up of reading MAPI materials but nothing gets into my mind - feeling like fish out of water]
Please help me...
omkamal
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No need to use MAPI. See this article for a simple way to access your POP server.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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Thank you Ravi for the reply. But there is something I need to tell. I tried directly from my cmd box and telnet to my pop3 server. I tried to pull the mails. It worked fine, but it gives me only garbage for the attachments. It also throws an info saying, "Since the mail message is in MIME format your mail reader is unable to translate it and so part or all of the message you may see are not text" - or something like it.
Is there any other way to read and save my attachments (especially with the exact file name that the sender sent)?
Remember, I want this utility to work in a lights-out environment. All the end user should see the next morning is bunch files on a specified folder. He should not care what command line program executes underneath.
omkamal
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omkamal wrote:
Is there any other way to read and save my attachments (especially with the exact file name that the sender sent)?
Yep. See my last reply.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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Here's another article link.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
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ravib@ravib.com
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Also see the articles here.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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Thanks for all the links. You give a whole bunch of work for the rest of the day.
But please dont go anywhere. I may get back to you for any problems.
Thanks so much again.
omkamal
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See I told I will get back to you. I checked this link (codeguru link that you sent me finally). Looked like it had a whole lot of samples and classes to explore. But just go thru the comments of different people. Everyone ask the author about how to read an attachment. Funny thing is either the author does not reply to them or one even said the following
Hi,
please do not contact me regarding the handling of attachments. I have no idea, and I never extended these classes to handle attachments.
Sorry, but this is something you have to find out yourself.
Thanks,
Michael
Submitted By: Michael Krebs (2001/06/13)
Go up a level
Isnt this weird that no one knows how to read a MIME type multipart attachment from a POP3 mail server? 
[Now, ravi do you understand how  I am.] Oh please help me again...
omkamal
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Darn, I know I've seen source code for extracting attachments from a raw mail message... I will keep looking.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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I think I found one from the codeguru link itself. I have gone thru the source code. Boy! its very heavy duty. The guy actually wrote whatever text that comes outta pop3 server Retr command to a file first.
He then parses thru the file, literally checking for strings like "To:", "From:", "Content-Disposition: attachment - <<filename>>" and then extracts everything to different variables.
Thats too much work though. Why in the world are there no C++ APIs or classes to do all these?
May be I should start writing them if no one really did before.
The sample that I am talking about in the codeguru link is this...
POP3 Client With Attachment - Alexander Volkov (2002/02/15)
Here is a simple COM server that is able to receive a mail messages and extract attached files.
omkamal
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There are commercial libs available to do this.
omkamal wrote:
May be I should start writing them if no one really did before.
That would be great! Please consider posting your article at CP.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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I never thought my Friday would be driven this nuts. I better go out for some movie or my head would be charbroiled. Almost burning.........
omkamal
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What!? You'd pass up a night of hacking the COmkamalEmailAttachment class for mindless entertainment? 
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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You never know ravi, how many .dsw and .dsp I have written so far starting from MAPI and until POP3 and MIME protocols with Winsock and a whole lot of fun.
I even have a feeling to quit my job. My boss is my only cheerleader now. (and ofcourse CP).
omkamal
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See this CP article on Mime utils.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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Have a look at Chilkat Mail - http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatMail.asp
It should do what you want.
Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com
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Thanks Neville, I am looking thru the code. But before I go any further have you used it. Is there a simple client written consuming this COM, that i can use? [Just to save my time]
omkamal
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omkamal wrote:
Is there a simple client written consuming this COM, that i can use? [Just to save my time]
Have a look at the sample code which Matt includes. I haven't actually used it apart from a quick play with the samples. The mailing list is active and Matt is quick to respond to problems. Quite amazing seeing that it is free.
Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com
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Neville,
Thanks for letting me know about this software.
Neville Franks wrote:
The mailing list is active and Matt is quick to respond to problems.
I am very impressed, as he replied me back within a moment for my questions.
Neville Franks wrote:
Quite amazing seeing that it is free
This is exactly true.
omkamal
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HI,
I have an VC++ application[DialogBased-has OLE-Automation support] which communicates to Data Acquisition[NI Diadem] software through OLE_DISPATCH_INTERFACE and this DAQ software copies custom_data[which is a graph]into windows clipboard.
Now in my vc++ application i.e[OnDialogViewImage()]function i am unable to get the clipboard data.
following is the below code i am using:
if(::OpenClipboard(AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd->m_hWnd))
{
BeginWaitCursor();
UINT enumformat = EnumClipboardFormats(uFormat);
HGLOBAL hem = ::GetClipboardData(enumformat);
}
but enumformat is always NULL. Is this is the correct way to get clipboarddata() and also how do i paint the data from clipboard to my DialogImage control.
Any help is welcome!.
regards
ArunBK
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Hi There,
I don't think that's the function you want to call. You should try calling IsClipboardFormatAvailable, with the ID of your custom clipboard format, which you should have retrieved through a previous call to RegisterClipboardFormat. Once you have verified that the indicated format exists on the clipboard through IsClipboardFormatAvailable, then, you may call GetClipboardData with the ID of the format you wish to retrieve the data in.
You don't need to call EnumClipboardFormats, unless you want to know about ALL of the formats that are on the clipboard. If you are only interested in a particular format, you should ask for it directly.
The call to EnumClipboardFormats is failing because you haven't initialized the IN/OUT parameter with a value of 0, to get the first available format. This parameter must be a valid format (to get the next format) or 0 (to get the first format).
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How to hide the application so it does not appear in the task manager Alt+Ctrl+Del?
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ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) will hide the application from the Application list in task mgr.. but you will still see your .exe in the processes.
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Hi!
Very similar problem, (maybe) with an anwser can be found at:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/mfc/Q.20301000.html
Mukkie
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How do I set up an include path directory? i.e. If I want a directory called "\mysource\include" to be automatically searched in the include path so that I can use "#include <<myheader.h>>"I thought it was in Project | Settings | Custom build but I'm missing something.
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