how to receive email by program

Question

hi

in outlook we can send email by program using mailItem.send(); my question is:

Is there the same function for receiving email.

because in my project i need to receive email by program.please tell me if you know

thanks a lot

Answer 1

Hello John,

You can call Application.Session.SendAndReceive() function to initiates immediate delivery of all underlivered messages submitted in the current session, and the immediate receipt of mail for all accounts in the current profile.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb175104(office.12).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb175374(office.12).aspx

Is this what you are looking for?

 

Best regards,

Ji Zhou

Microsoft Online Community Support

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Answer 2

hi

thank you for your answer, and your answer works for me

i have and other question. i have 3 email account in outlook. but i just want to receive email in just one account.how can i specify the account used to receive emails by program in above question.

 

thanks

Answer 3

One approach is to walk the ActiveExplorer.CommandBars hierarchy in order to locate the command on the Tools menu that will download a particular account. (This won't work in Outlook 2010.)

Another would be to create a new Send/Receive group just for the particular account, return it from the Namespace.SyncObjects collection, and call its SyncObject.Start method.

Answer 4

thank you for your quick answer.

can i hold the program until the email is completely received. because sometimes if the email is big or the network problem, the unread email won't show intermediately,and i will use the data in the email for another program.

 

is there any way to tell if  the receiving function is done?

 

thank you

 

Answer 5

If you use the SyncObject approach, yes, you can wait for completion of the send/receive process, which will fire the SyncObject.SyncEnd event. 

Answer 6

hi

can you give me a simple example for that

thanks so much

Answer 7

There's already an example in the Outlook Developer documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa219364.aspx

Answer 8

thank you

C#

app.Session.SyncObjects[1].SyncEnd += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.SyncObjectEvents_SyncEndEventHandler(ThisAddIn_SyncEnd);