Nigel,

Many thanks. Your code would certainly do what I need, although somewhat more than I need. I have an app that can read the email file and look for what it wants to find, and attachments are not a concern. Is there an easy way to simply find out what default file and directory are being used for received email?

Thanks again,
Allen


>Evan is right here. My class (in the files section - classes) MAPIMail can read attachments from any MAPI compliant mail client. You won't find the attachment files using explorer. If you use my class, you will be able to access the attachment files directly through the InBox - the files are not stored anywhere until you open the message they are attached to, my class will solve this for you. Have a go!
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>>To All,
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>>I'm creating an app that needs to read the received messages in the user's email file. This is INBOX.* in MSIE and Netscape. The problem is, I don't know where this file might be located depending on the particular email client being used and how and where the client was installed. Here are some possible approaches:
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>>Is there a way to know the current default path and file name for email somewhere in Windows?
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>>Is there a way to search all directories from the root to locate a file?
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>>If I could search all files in all directories looking for a specific text string it would be fine, because the user will have an email having a distinctive phrase (an email sent previously). So, if they find it, that's the email file they are currently using.
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>>Windows Explorer can locate a file, but I want my app's setup routine to do it automatically.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,
>>Allen