Drag and Drop Outlook email to Dot Net Framework application?

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Ellen - 22 Sep 2006 20:50 GMT

Hi! Please point me to the correct discussion if I am off base.

We are beta testing a new Dot Net Framework application that allows us to
upload documents of different file types for online storage with each of our
transactions. We can easily drag and drop email attachments to the new
application, but we cannot seem to drag and drop an email msg from Outlook.

I suspect this may have something to do with security. We are able to export
and save the email msg as a text file, and upload that, or drag and drop text
directly from the email msg but this does not transfer any header info. The
drag and drop method direct to the application would be far simpler and more
timesaving.

We know drag and drop is a possibility, as you are able to drag and drop an
email msg file to the desktop for instance. I am correct? Is this issue
actually a
security function to prevent malicious code troubles?

Best Regards,
Ellen

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frank1951@lycos.com - 25 Sep 2006 13:51 GMT

I think drag and drop needs a directory to build the complete msg file
(in a directory). Because you don't have one, it won't work.

I see two possible solutions.
1) Let the user allways save the email as msg using File|SaveAs in one
typical directory (e.g. c:\myapplication\). Let your application scan
this directory every minute. Once a file is discovered, it can be
imported into the application. You can save all other documents (word
document, Powerpoint presentation) in that directory as well..

2) Or maybe mailtofile will help you more. This add in for Outlook let
you save one (or more) email as a msg file. After saving, mailtofile
can upload the file to your application.
More information about mailtofile: www.mailtofile.com/en/
We did customize mailtofile to upload outlook messages to the document
management software (in a Oracle database).

Frank

Ellen schreef:

> Hi! Please point me to the correct discussion if I am off base.
>
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> Best Regards,
> Ellen

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Ellen - 25 Sep 2006 15:36 GMT

Hi Frank, thanks very much for responding. I'll forward your comments to the
developer.
Regards,
Ellen

> I think drag and drop needs a directory to build the complete msg file
> (in a directory). Because you don't have one, it won't work.
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> > Best Regards,
> > Ellen

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