general email question need advice

[mkohl]

I have been given a task to create a program that filters emails, and then saves the email information to a data base. The company I work for uses outlook, and my boss receives emails on every job that goes on hold. He wants to take those emails and put the information about the jobs, into a database.

As of now, im kind of pondering on a solution to the problem. I was thinking I could possibly create a windows service, that monitors emails and then processes only the emails relating to jobs on hold.

Also, create a windows application, so that he could quickly access information related to the jobs on hold, and print a report.


I've wrote a few programs that send emails, but my question is, "Is it possible to tap into outlook" and grab email information, such as [sender, topic, body] so that I can process the emails?

If anyone has any advice about how I should do this, I would really appreciate it.

-mike

 

[jebenson]

Here's a link to a website that lists several Microsoft articles and such on the topic:

Programming Microsoft Outlook with Visual Studio .NET

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