How to read emails from *.pst file in c#

Ismat Babirli

8y13.3kLearn iOS Programming

HI. I want to read emails from *.pst without connecting Outlook or other applications.

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Uehara Ayaka8y ago
Hi, you can use Spire.Email to retrieve emails in a .pst file by using the following code snippet.
//load .pst file
OutlookFile outlookFile = new OutlookFile("Sample.pst");

//get the 'Inbox' folder
OutlookFolder folder = outlookFile.GetFolder("Inbox");

//get items(messages) in the folder
IEnumerable items = folder.EnumerateOutlookItem();

//get message info
foreach (var item in items)
{
    string subject = item.Subject;
    string body = item.Body;
}
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Hussam Barouqa8y ago
If you want to deal with Outlook files without using Outlook or Interop, you will probably need to use a library that has its own components to deal with Office formats.

One option is to consider using a professional toolkit like the LEADTOOLS SDK (www.leadtools.com/downloads?category=main). This SDK has the ability to convert between different document formats including all of the Office documents such as Outlook’s PST files.

For example, the code to convert PST to PDF will look something like this:
using (DocumentConverter documentConverter = new DocumentConverter())

{

   var inFile = @"input.pst";

   var outFile = @"output.pdf";

   var format = DocumentFormat.Pdf;

   var jobData = DocumentConverterJobs.CreateJobData(inFile, outFile, format);

   jobData.JobName = "conversion job";

   var job = documentConverter.Jobs.CreateJob(jobData);

   documentConverter.Jobs.RunJob(job);

}
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Sagar Pandurang Kap8y ago
Hi,
you need to first add refrence to the page Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

Outlook.Application olApp = new Outlook.ApplicationClass();
olApp.Session.AddStore(“PST path here”);
Outlook.MAPIFolder folder = OlApp.Getnamespace(“MAPI”).Folders.GetLast();
Outlook.Items items = folder.items;

foreach (Outlook.MailItem item in folder.items)
{
Console.WriteLine(item.SenderEmailAddress + ” ” + item.Subject + “\n” + item.Body);
}
Hope it helps..
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