Access Lotus Notes Mail

Question

Hi all,

I need to access Lotus Notes Mail and read the mail subject. If the mail subject matches my requirement, I will need to download the attachment.

But I am not sure how to connnect to lotus mail and retrieve the mail subject.

Does anyone know of any classes that can connect to lotus notes?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi - I think my information can help...

Try by using a Microsoft Office Outlook class by importing the refernces and Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL).

I hope this information could solve your problem...

Best regards,
Fisnik

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Answer 2

My advice would be to see if it exposes any webservices that you can use.

Answer 3

Hi,
I found following solution in C# Code.
Have one window base application and make one button on it and one listbox.

using

 

Domino;

using

 

System.IO;

using

 

System.Collections;

 

StreamReader reader;

 

int Mailcnt = 0;

 

string AttachmentName;

 

StringBuilder sp = new StringBuilder();

 

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

 

int numberDocs = 0;

 

try

{

 

NotesSession notesSession = new NotesSessionClass();

notesSession.Initialize(

string.Empty);

 

NotesDatabase notesDB;

notesDB = notesSession.GetDatabase(

"", @"C:\Documents and Settings\preeti.chauhan\Desktop\NSF File\Abreu w_2 Collado_001.nsf", false);

 

if (!notesDB.IsOpen)

{

notesDB.Open();

}

 

if (notesDB != null)

{

 

object[] views = (object[])notesDB.Views;

LNViews =

new ArrayList();

 

for (int i = 0; i < views.Length; i++)

{

 

NotesView view = views[i] as NotesView;

LNViews.Add(view);

 

if(view.Name!=null)

lstView.Items.Add(view.Name);

 

else

lstView.Items.Add(

"Blank-null");

}

 

 

for (int i = 0; i < views.Length; i++)

{

 

NotesView view = views[i] as NotesView;

LNViews.Add(view);

lstView.Items.Add(view.Name);

 

 

 

if (view.Name.StartsWith("Documents")) // Lets Process this view

{

 

ProcessView(view);

}

 

else if (view.Name.StartsWith("All Documents"))

{

ProcessView(view);

}

 

 

}

 

 

 

}

 

 

 

}

 

catch (Exception ex)

{

 

MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);

}

 

MessageBox.Show(Convert.ToString(numberDocs));

}

 

private void ProcessView(NotesView vW)

{

 

NotesDocument nDoc; int numberDocs = 0;

 

 

 

 

nDoc = vW.GetFirstDocument();

 

while (nDoc != null)

{

numberDocs++;

 

object[] objects = (object[])nDoc.Items;

 

StringBuilder sp = new StringBuilder();

 

Hashtable Properties = new Hashtable();

sp = FileStringBuilder(sp);

 

 

foreach (object ob in objects)

{

 

NotesItem notesItem = (NotesItem)ob;

 

if (notesItem.Name != null)

 

if (!Properties.Contains(notesItem.Name))

Properties.Add(notesItem.Name, notesItem.Text);

 

if (notesItem.Name == "$FILE")

{

 

object[] values = (object[])notesItem.Values;

AttachmentName =

"";

 

foreach (object o in values)

{

SaveAttachment(nDoc, o.ToString());

 

if (AttachmentName != "")

AttachmentName =

"," + o.ToString();

 

else

AttachmentName = o.ToString();

}

}

}

WriteHtmlfile(sp, Properties);

Properties.Clear();

nDoc = vW.GetNextDocument(nDoc);

}

}

 

private static void SaveAttachment(NotesDocument nDoc, string fileName)

{

 

NotesEmbeddedObject attachment = nDoc.GetAttachment(fileName);

 

if (attachment != null)

{

 

Console.WriteLine("Saving new attachment to file " + fileName);

attachment.ExtractFile(

"C:\\NSF\\NSFOutput\\SampleOutput\\LotusNotes\\ " + fileName);

}

}

 

private StringBuilder FileStringBuilder(StringBuilder sb)

{

 

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(@"C:\NSF\NSFOutput\Template.htm");

sb.Append(reader.ReadToEnd());

reader.Close();

 

return sb;

}

 

private void WriteHtmlfile(StringBuilder sp, Hashtable tble)

{

 

if (tble["From"] != null)

{

sp.Replace(

"#From#", tble["From"].ToString());

}

 

if (tble["PostedDate"] != null)

{

sp.Replace(

"#Sent#", tble["PostedDate"].ToString());

}

 

if (tble["SendTo"] != null)

{

sp.Replace(

"#To#", tble["SendTo"].ToString());

}

 

if (tble["Subject"] != null)

{

sp.Replace(

"#Subject#", tble["Subject"].ToString());

}

 

////To make new lines in the template file.

 

if (tble["Body"] != null)

{

 

string body = tble["Body"].ToString();

 

string ToBody = body.Replace("\r\n", "<br>");

sp.Replace(

"#Body#", ToBody);

}

 

StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(@"C:\\NSF\\NSFOutput\\nsfhtmlfile\\" + Mailcnt + ".htm");

writer.Write(sp.ToString());

writer.Close();

Mailcnt += 1;

}



But my problem regarding lotus notes is:
I want to extract email, document calender etc everything and need to store on the disk as a native file(as original file).
In above code we make the html file.
is anyone know, how to extract document or emails from lotus notes directly and save to disk.