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Receive email with attachment in VFP
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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01544911
Message ID:
01545151
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>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am looking for a method to receive email(s) in VFP and separate attachment from each email message. I looked at the code in the following link (which is useful but does not seem to have the way to get the attachment too)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/read-pop3-mail-using-winsock
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I also looked at the West Wind wwPop3 class but don't see how to separate an attachment from email either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Any other suggestions? Or maybe I am missing something in the wwPop3. Please let me know. Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>>Use Eudora as an email client - attachments are saved in a separate folder - frre to download and use - easy to set up - have been using i for years
>>>>
>>>>I need to receive emails with attachment in a VFP application. The goal is to automate the process of separating the attachment, parsing it, and based on the content update some tables. Thank you for your suggestion.
>>>
>>>I receive emails with attachments in VFP - I parse the email text and open the attachment usually to append the contents to a database
>>>
>>>Why are you trying to make life difficult for yourself? - the wheel was invented years ago
>>
>>What code/tool do you use to receive emails with attachments in VFP?
>
>I have an email client called Eudora (Google it) - the emails are sent to an email address which this client picks up and puts in a separate directory called attach - the I look at this directory in VFP for the attachments

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