Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Jun 1 11:55:36 CDT 2011
One further note on this: There are a number of Linux alternatives for handling mail receipts and subsequently transferring the information to a Windows box if required. To setup an Ubuntu Linux on an old clunker is not a difficult task as the last install I did took 37 minutes and most of the time was spent sitting on my hands...it can even created it own partition on an old Windows box and added a dual boot option. (When asked by friends on how to install a version; making the usual complaints that "I do not have time to learn this", if they have a child over 10, I suggest ask them instead.) ;-) There are half a dozen interesting mail products server/client or just a receipt agent which can handle any number of mail accounts, some are fully programmable or/and they can even just forward the contents to a Windows box, on the network, for further processing. After the install and configuration you can just push the box into the corner and it will just run for the next 10 years. Just a thought, if time and cost is of an essence. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 7:36 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] redemption Hi John Arthur is right. No reason to mess with Outlook for this task. I did something similar years ago using Access with a timer form, a command line POP3 client, Postie, and a mail server, Mercury. It worked with zero errors for about six years until the client changed business. These days, as your received mail volume probably is quite low, for 1) and 2) you could use a simple library as this: http://dotnetctrlext.sourceforge.net/smtpop.htm http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetctrlext/ Mercury is not free anymore, and you may use a hosted POP3 service to receive the mail. But if you prefer to store the mail at own premises, you could benefit from the little-known simple POP3 server included in Windows Server 2000/2003 (not 2008). It is installed via Add/Remove Windows components under IIS. Having stripped the attachments, the remaining topics should be trivial for you. /gustav >>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 31-05-2011 18:36 >>> Arthur, I am setting up an automated system for: 1) Receive an email with an Excel attachment 2) Strip the attachment, create a directory and place the attachment into it. 3) Create a SQL Server database (temporary) 4) Import a list of zips in each page of the spreadsheet into a matching table in the database 5) Count the household / population in those zips 6) generate an email back out with the counts in the body of the email. The objective is that the client sends an email that matches strict criteria (Count name in the subject, files have count name pattern in the file name etc) and have the system automatically pick up the email (pull it into the server), get the attachment and process it. I went looking and all I could find for automating GMail was web crapola, IOW if you wanted to do stuff with it on your web site. I need it on my server. I am not using outlook per se, I am trying to get an object that is a POP or CDO or whatever. Something that will pull data into a email store local to my computer that I can manipulate. No one spoke up when I asked how to do this. Now everyone has an opinion. OTOH I have actual running code that does this now, so opinions at this point do me no good. I already paid to develop this. I have a business to run, you know? When I ask and get no response I go figure it out myself. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 5/31/2011 11:13 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > OK, regard this as a stupid question, but Why is anyone using Outlook? I > just don't get it. There are so many superior alternatives, my current > preference being gmail, but there are many others. > > Arthur -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com