Using C# or VB.NET to access a remote Exchange mailbox and create appointments

[pjblecha]

Hello all:

I'm working on a non-web-based (darn it...) application that will be set up as a scheduled task on an Exchange server to run against a mailbox 2-3 times per day. What the app needs to do is read messages in the mailbox, then create appointment items based on filtering the subject line and parsing text from the message body (which will be in HTML format). I have old VBScript that will create the appointment items, set them to a color, and parse the text; what I need to do is understand how to access the correct mailbox and either read or retrieve the messages, then move the messages from the inbox to a different mail folder.

So, again, what I need is the code to do the following:

1) select the correct mailbox (obviously, an Exchange server contains hundreds or thousands of them)
2) iterate through the items in the mailbox and filter on the subject line
3) parse the message body to get crucial bits of information
4) create an Appointment item based on those bits of information that have been retrieved
5) move the read message to another inbox folder.

Forgot to mention... I'd like to do this in C# if possible, but I can write either C# or VB.NET; but I'm limited to using the 1.1 framework at present.

Thanks!

[RedSon]

Hello all:

I'm working on a non-web-based (darn it...) application that will be set up as a scheduled task on an Exchange server to run against a mailbox 2-3 times per day. What the app needs to do is read messages in the mailbox, then create appointment items based on filtering the subject line and parsing text from the message body (which will be in HTML format). I have old VBScript that will create the appointment items, set them to a color, and parse the text; what I need to do is understand how to access the correct mailbox and either read or retrieve the messages, then move the messages from the inbox to a different mail folder.

So, again, what I need is the code to do the following:

1) select the correct mailbox (obviously, an Exchange server contains hundreds or thousands of them)
2) iterate through the items in the mailbox and filter on the subject line
3) parse the message body to get crucial bits of information
4) create an Appointment item based on those bits of information that have been retrieved
5) move the read message to another inbox folder.

Forgot to mention... I'd like to do this in C# if possible, but I can write either C# or VB.NET; but I'm limited to using the 1.1 framework at present.

Thanks!

Have you searched MSDN?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...67(VS.71).aspx

[pjblecha]

Have you searched MSDN?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...67(VS.71).aspx

Thanks for the link. I'll delve into it; but I will say, I've done quite a bit of searching in MSDN, and usually they are good at giving very basic, impractical examples, and never getting into real-world scenarios that use deeper methods and properties, like I will need to for this.

I would still appreciate more feedback on this issue. Thanks.

[NishaRaghu]

My requirement is similar can anybody help me out?

[SilvaStraus]

I think that the solution given here might be what you are looking for:

http://www.independentsoft.de/webdav...pointment.html