Read Outlook E-mail message from Navision

vrushank

Hi,
I have been asked to read e-mail messages (in outlook) using Navision (NAV 5.0 SP1).
I have been breaking my head over this since quite a few days but nothing positive has come out of
that. Has anyone ever tried this before or is anyone aware of how I could do it or possible lead me
in the correct direction.
All you support will be very much appreciated.

Thank you guys.....

JPHSC

Use the outlook automation object .. Here you can loop trough all the mails in your outlook folder.
Use the mailitem, here you can get anything from the mail: sender, recipients, subject.
To read the body of the mail, i save it als text ( mailitem.saveas(textfile.txt)) and i read them with an instream to a table. Works fine !

canadian_bacon

use Outlook automation:

- create instance of Outlook
- navigate to the specific folder
- go to a specific email
- save the body of the email as a text file
- parse the text file line by line
- do whatever you have to do in NAV

I can send you some code samples later today when I have the time to dig it up.

Luc_VanDyck

This download can be useful: Outlook Automation tool

vrushank

Thank u guys....i shall try the automation object.....
and as u say, if its worked for all u guys, it must then work for me to....
thanks once again!!!

vrushank

Dear Canadian_Bacon,
Can u pls send me the code snippets u were mentioning.
I cant seem to change or navigate to a folder......perhaps im missing a trick here!!

drago82

Hi guys,
I'm completely new to Navision and one of my first tasks is to write a codeunit that reads mail's from Outlook 2010 using automation. The general idea is as follows:

The mail in specific form is received in outlook, Navision (Dynamics NAV 2009) reads data from mail (both subject and body) and writes it in NAV's SQLServer database as a new record in a table.

Can you please help a newbie jumpstart with some basic explanation of the proces and please post some code example.

Thanks!

Collo

Hi

I am also having similar issues reading e-mails from outlook.

I can read e-mails ok, so long as I have no appointments. If I do have an appointment is get the message 'Invalid assignment. It is not possible to assign a _MeetingItem to a MailItem.'

I just can't figure out how to filter out the appointments. All I want to read are the mails.

Any suggestions/ideas?

Cheers