Reading email box to take out attachments, unzip files from

Hi Peter,

Did you try to use Redemption (CREATE "Redemption.SafeMailItem" h_SafeMail) for getting the attachments.

See: www.dimastr.com/.../safe_Attachment.htm

With this you can use the method SaveAsFile(Path) to save the attachment.

As for extraction, I'm not sure if you can make the extraction directly from Progress. Eventually you might be able to use some external libraries(.dll) for extraction.

Regards,

Gabriel

Gabriel,

Thank you kindly for your information. Redemption we use in our application to send emails.

I have to replace the 32bit DLL with the 64bit DLL.

I read in the site that there is a .Net option for Redemption.

Do you know if it will work in Progress sessions to and if it can be loaded in PDSOE as user control?

On the site I cannot find it. Bot if it is a class based on standard .Net controls it should work???

Kind regards,

Peter

Don't know if you're looking to read mail through pop3. I've implemented an opensource .NET control sourceforge.net/.../hpop once. Had to recompile the c# library because of a callback when trying to read mail from exchange. Let me know if this is what you're looking for and need some help.

Richard,

Thank you kindly for this info. There are two flavors IMAP and POP3.

Do not know which one the application users have. Can be either of those.

This could be the second option I have to implement into the application next to Redemption.

Now I have an Redemption.dll and a xpMail.dll so I can use both.

Only problem I have to replace them to 64bit.

I don't know the origin from the xpMail.dll.

What had you do to solve the problem with the callback. Made any change in the source for that?

I have never recompiled a c# library. Maybe I can replace the xpMail for hpop dll.

Hope you could help me on this?

Kind regards,

Peter    

OpenPop only reads mail through pop3 for IMAP you'll need to find something else.

When reading mail from an exchange server you'll need to implement a certificate validation which is done in c# with a callback which is not supported in OpenEdge. I've edited the Pop3Client.cs and added the following method (see below). You can recompile the .NET control with SharpDevelop ( http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/ ) which is pretty straight forward.

Richard

   /// <summary>

/// Method for bypassing certificate check needed for single thread OpenEdge application

private static bool certificateValidator(object sender, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate certificate, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Chain chain, System.Net.Security.SslPolicyErrors sslpolicyerrors)

   {

     return true;

   }

I wonder if this subject has evolved into something that can be shared, as I need to do exactly the same as this post...

TIA

Jorge

If you don't mind spending a few dollars (~$300 for their entire set of components), to likely save many thousands in development time, look at the products available from http://www.chilkatsoft.com/default.asp.

Relevant to this thread are their Mail and Zip products.  Makes this pretty easy in Windows with .Net or ActiveX. I know they support other OS's but I have no experience with these.

For Mail, they support Pop3, IMap, and Exchange. Makes this all pretty easy. Been using their stuff for years, works great. I have no relation, other than as a satisfied customer, with this company.

Tom 

Thanks!!!

I'll check it out...

Tom,

Do you have better luck with the mail control from chilkatsoft than with the .NET MailMessage / SMTPClient? We have been using MailMessage with SMTPClient for years with no issues. I would not consider the volume of mail we are sending as high.

Thanks for the info Tom. I may have to take a look. We simply send an email with an attachment from time to time.

See you in June.

Roger