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I have a requirement to get all email messages from a certain folder on our exchange server, save all attachments and the message itself to the file system.
I can save the attachments, but I'm having an issue with the message itself.

Our exchange server is 2010 SP2, so I am using EWS to connect, get the messages and save the attachments. These files are going into a document repository system. This system can display .msg files, so I need the emails to save as .msg.

From what I've found so far, I can only save the messages as .eml files.

I thought I could work with this by converting the .eml to .msg, but not finding a way to do this yet.

Then I thought I could get the messages from a console application using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook after getting some kind of Id from the EWS application. I can't find id's in both that are the same.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have to get the message files as .msg for our document repository system.

thank you in advance,

tshaffer
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http://www.independentsoft.de/exchangewebservices/tutorial/downloadmessagetomsgfile.html

Exchange Web Services .NET offers feature to save messages and other items as Outlook .msg files. It works with ANSI and Unicode .msg files.
 
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Tisha Shaffer 21-Aug-13 9:06am    
My company will not allow me to use third party software. That is why I'm stuck. I'm sorry that I didn't mention that in my original question.
I have decided not to use EWS, instead I am using Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Interop.

I have the following code working well on my development PC:

VB
log = New cLog()
        Dim AppKeys As IDictionary = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("AppKeys")
        Dim app As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application()
        Dim box As String
        log.Write("Starting to retrieve mail.")
        Try
            box = AppKeys("mailbox")
            tempLoc = Environment.CurrentDirectory & "\" & ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("TempLoc")
            Dim ns As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.NameSpace = app.Session
            log.Write("Namespace is: " & ns.CurrentProfileName)
            Dim recipient As Recipient = ns.CreateRecipient(box)
            log.Write("recipient is: " & recipient.Name)
            recipient.Resolve()
            log.Write("recipient resolved")
            Dim inbox As Folder = ns.GetSharedDefaultFolder(recipient, OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox)
            log.Write("Got inbox")
            Dim subject As String
            Dim mailCount As Int32 = 0
            log.Write("There are " + inbox.Items.Count.ToString() + " Emails in " + box)
            For Each mm As MailItem In inbox.Items
                If Not subject Is Nothing Then
                    For Each attach As Attachment In mm.Attachments
                        attach.SaveAsFile(tempLoc & filename & attach.FileName.Substring(attach.FileName.Length - 4, 4))
                    Next
                        ''Save email message as msg and create idx file for it
                        filename = filename.Substring(0, filename.Length - 2) & "_" & count + 1
                        mm.SaveAs(tempLoc & filename & ".msg", OlSaveAsType.olMSG)
                End If
            Next
        Catch ex As System.Exception
            log.Write("Excpetion getting mail: " & ex.Message)
        End Try
        app.Quit()


However, when I move the compiled code to a production PC (with Office 2010 installed, same as my development PC) I now get the following error on this line, "ns.GetSharedDefaultFolder":

The operation failed because of a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, reinstall.

I have a seperate application running on the same production PC that uses Microsoft.Office.Outlook.Interop to convert .MSG files to .PDF and that runs without issue.

The only difference that I can think of is that my development PC is Windows XP and the production PC is Windows 7.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
 
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Kenneth Haugland 14-Oct-13 12:43pm    
You should mark your question as solved then.
Tisha Shaffer 14-Oct-13 13:46pm    
I will post my current issue under a new question then.

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