I have a bunch of .eml files inside a folder and I would like to know how can I load them inside UIPath in order to save their attachments.
One way I saw that this could be done is to add those mails inside a collection variable then use the save attachment function on that collection however I do not know how to load an .eml file inside a variable that is of type System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
Option 1: convert your EML files into MailMessage objects. To my knowledge, this can only be done by using third party tools, such as MailBee.NET. You can then use the InvokeCode activity with your eml as an input parameter, and a MailMessage object as the output, which would then allow you to call the SaveMailAttachments activity (which expects a MailMessage object).
Option 2: make use of UiPath's Desktop Automation capabilities. Having Outlook installed allows you to just double-click any eml file in order to open it. Then, just have your robot click on the Save all Attachments icon, followed by selecting a folder location. (Note that you can use just any client, e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird will work with eml files just as fine).
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Hi I'm faced with a challenge to avoid some slow moving and unresponsive bureaucracy. I'm trying to come up with a PowerShell I can use to check a directory for .eml files and check the sender for a specific domain and then if said domain exists change the domain to another domain. I'd like to mention that the .eml file names always change but I'd like the script to work no matter the filename as long as the extension is .eml
I need to ask you about the possibility of saving LotusNotes documents (with the attachments) as separated files in EML format on a hard disc.
Of course it's not important to keep the original document's look but it's very important to input into the file the content of the notes document including all the attached files.
The reason is to be able to open the exported file in an email client.
Is it possible?
Do you have any experience with resolving a problem like this?
The easiest way to do this for a small number of documents is to use #MailSend to forward the documents to a Notes user account or to mail-in database, and then go into that mailbox, select the message, and drag it to your desktop. Recent versions of the Notes client will save the document as .eml file that can be opened in Outlook or other standard mail clients. Or instead of sending to something in Notes, you could send to a non-Domino email system, connect with Outlook and do the same drag-to-desktop there, which I believe results in a .msg file instead of a .eml file, but they're essentially the same.
To automate it for a large number of documents that I need to do in one batch, I might still use the #Mailsend approach, but I'd do this on a dedicated Domino server. I'd address the email to an external address, and I'd set up SMTPSaveOutboundToFile=1 in the notes.ini file of that dedicated Domino server.
I think the Notes-client drag to desktop operation results in somewhat higher fidelity in the .eml file than either of the other approaches, but it's been about ten years and three major Notes/Domino versions since I played around with any of these.
Yes this can definitely be done programmatically. To do this, convert the doc to MIME via convertToMIME() using the DxlExporter to do the rest of the work. It creates XML output that contains a <mime> tag in which the output of the fully converted MIME format document resides. See this for a full description: How to Programmatically Convert Lotus Notes email Document to MIME Format
I am working on an outlook plugin that will have a list of mail items. What i want to do is display these mail items in the active explorer pane.
Basically many users will be using the plugin. When user x gets an email he will drop it in a a customized pane which will then classify the mail. (I have already developped the drag and drop of mail). I'm currently saving the .msg on a server once dropped.
Now i want to display a list of these mails on the explorer pane. Assuming that i have a list of .msg files how do i make these display on the active explorer pane.
WHAT I've already tried.
OutlookInstance.MAPIFolder inbox = (OutlookInstance.MAPIFolder)application.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder(OutlookInstance.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
OutlookInstance.MAPIFolder customFolder = null;
customFolder = (OutlookInstance.MAPIFolder)inbox.Folders.Add("NEWFOLDER", OutlookInstance.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
inbox.Folders["NEWFOLDER"].Display();
So the above creates a folder and then i can add the mails in there. However it seems a bit redundant to create folders and then place the mail in there.
Are there any other ways of doing this ?
You can't display emails in an Explorer unless they are present in a folder or Search Folder somewhere. If these emails only exist as .msg files then you will have to open them from their file path and capture the new Inspector so you can use MailItem.Move to create a copy in a folder (technically it's not moving the file, but .SaveAs isn't relevant). An alternative is to use Redemption's RDOSession.GetMessageFromMsgFile method.
Once these emails are imported you could possibly use the Explorer.AddToSelection method to make these emails stand out from others that may exist in the same folder.
Right now, I'm using the Exchange Web Services API with PowerShell to pull down specific emails from exchange and save them as EML files. This works great; however, the user/customer requires the emails to be in msg format. There are two ways that I've seen to do this:
Use Outlook/Outlook COM Object
Use a 3rd party library or software (like this: http://www.independentsoft.de/exchangewebservices/tutorial/downloadmessagetomsgfile.html)
Are there any other alternatives? I would like to stick with PowerShell if possible, but it seems like EWS might be limited to writing EML files.
There is no flexibility on the MSG vs EML requirement (compliance).
EDIT:
This will be run on a server; so I would prefer if this could be done without having Outlook installed.
You can still use PowerShell with the Outlook Object Model (OOM), if that's what you are hoping for.
You can also use Redemption, which has more features than OOM (it can also be run in a service, doesn't fire Outlook security prompts, etc.).
You can create an MSG file explicitly in your code (it is an OLE storage (IStorage) file and its format is documented) - parse the EML file, then populate various MAPI properties in the MSG file.
You can also use Redemption (I am its author). Converting an EML file to MSG is as easy as
RDOSession Session = new RDOSession();
RDOMail Msg = Session.CreateMessageFromMsgFile(#"c:\temp\YourMsgFile.msg");
Msg.Import(#"c:\temp\YourEmlFile.eml", rdoSaveAsType.olRFC822);
Msg.Save();
I'm stuck in a great problem. My task is to download some emails from a server using the IMAP protocol. This is accomplished by using the "get mails (POP3 / IMAP)" job entry, which downloads the emails, but in binary format.
Files in binary format are .mail files containing sender, subject, body, and encoded attachment files. I need to obtain separate files, because I must realize some steps with these files as input.
I've seen that there are third-party libraries or utilities to decode the .mail file and get the attachment file list. However, I want to do this process without any additional utility (because this should require a shell step, depending on the SO).
Is there any way or trick to get the attachments using only Pentaho job entries or transformation steps?
I'm using the version 5.1 of Pentaho Kettle.
I will explain the whole process so that anybody can get the advantage of it.
1) Add START and Get mails (POP3/IMAP) job entries, and create a hop between them.
2) Edit the Get mails entry to use your IMAP server (host name, port number, username, password, etc), and click Test Connection to verify settings.
3) In the Target folder, uncheck Save message content and check Get mail attachment and Different folder for attachment. Define a target folder for both the Target directory and Attachment files folder.
4) On the Settings tab, select the IMAP folder that you want to download from. Change other settings as desired.
5) Click OK, Save the Job, and Run the job.