Automatic e-mail processing

Question

I'd like to write a .NET application in F# to automate some of the processing of my e-mails. For example, when an order comes in my program might compute a new htpasswd from the e-mail's contents, upload it to our web server and reply to the customer with login details.

How do people do this? I've tried Outlook 2007 automation but it just prompts the user for security and my attempts to get it to stop doing this have failed so I cannot automate anything with it. Is there a .NET-friendly e-mail client I can use more easily?

This has been so tedious that I'm seriously considering writing my own .NET-friendly e-mail client...

Answer 1

A few links for you to consider to bypass the security dialog:

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926512
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402911033.aspx

Answer 2

Hi,

This is a very common scenario. The most common is to use IMAP or POP3 components to download the email and parse using a Mime component. I've got an IMAP windows service that I've had running for 8+yrs now that processes emails.

I wrote and use my own stuff at www.advancedintellect.com , but if you want free components, there are some codeproject articles out there, along with some projects on sourceforge.

Cheers!

Dave