Iterate throw E-mail items in Outlook

Hi Guys,

I'm new soo I don't really is this a good topic board (shouldn't I wrote on Office Interoperability?), but I think that my problem is so silly for someone who know's .NET and C#, that I will try to ask:).

The idea is that I must only iterate for every mail in Outlook 2007 inbox folder, and those mail which passed my conditions, I must moved to subfoler named "Archive". This is only a few lines of code, but even with this a have problem:(, and the worst thing is that I need this to my work for tommorrow. My code work fine.....but only for 1 mail...and I dont't know why? For example I sent to my e-mail account set up in Outlook 3 mails which are consistend with my conditions (for example every 3 mails have no subject and they have only 1 attachment), and run my application in VS 2008, then I look in Outlook and I see that only one of those three mails have been moved, If I run app, next mail will be moved to Archive subfolder, and like that....I don't know why he don't do this at once as I iterate using foreach? It's not logical for me:(

This is my very small code:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlook = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.NameSpace names = outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI");
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder odbiorcza = names.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder archive = names.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox).Folders["Archive"];


                if (odbiorcza.Items.Count > 0)
                {
                    foreach (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem mail in odbiorcza.Items)
                    {
                        if (mail.Subject == null || mail.Subject.StartsWith("WWY"))
                        {
                            MessageBox.Show(mail.SenderName.ToString());

                            if (mail.Attachments.Count == 1)
                            {
                                mail.Move(archive);
                            }
                        }
                    }

                }

I would be very gratefully for every advice and tip, really!
And sorry for my language, but I'm just learning english

Best Greets
Michael

Hi Michal,

First add a reference to the Outlook COM object your project:

In VS.NET right click on References and choose Add Reference.
Select the COM tab
Choose "Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library" (this is for MS Office 2003 - I think 10.0 is for Office XP) and click Select.
Click OK.
Note that you can access any Outlook/Exchange object types, eg Appointments, Notes, Tasks, Emails etc - just use intellisense to select which one (eg Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. ... - see definition of variable called 'item' below).

Here's the code:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._NameSpace ns = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.PostItem item = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder inboxFolder = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder subFolder = null;

try
{
app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
ns = app.GetNamespace("MAPI");
ns.Logon(null,null,false, false);

inboxFolder = ns.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
subFolder = inboxFolder.Folders["MySubFolderName"]; //folder.Folders[1]; also works
Console.WriteLine("Folder Name: {0}, EntryId: {1}", subFolder.Name, subFolder.EntryID);
Console.WriteLine("Num Items: {0}", subFolder.Items.Count.ToString());

for(int i=1;i<=subFolder.Items.Count;i++)
{
item = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.PostItem)subFolder.Items[i];
Console.WriteLine("Item: {0}", i.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Subject: {0}", item.Subject);
Console.WriteLine("Sent: {0} {1}" item.SentOn.ToLongDateString(), item.SentOn.ToLongTimeString());
Console.WriteLine("Categories: {0}", item.Categories);
Console.WriteLine("Body: {0}", item.Body);
Console.WriteLine("HTMLBody: {0}", item.HTMLBody);
}
}
catch (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
finally
{
ns = null;
app = null;
inboxFolder = null;
}

For more info:
http://www.programminghelp.com/programming/dotnet/access-your-email-within-outlook-final-part-c/

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Senthilkumar14y ago
Hi Michal,

First add a reference to the Outlook COM object your project:

In VS.NET right click on References and choose Add Reference.
Select the COM tab
Choose "Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library" (this is for MS Office 2003 - I think 10.0 is for Office XP) and click Select.
Click OK.
Note that you can access any Outlook/Exchange object types, eg Appointments, Notes, Tasks, Emails etc - just use intellisense to select which one (eg Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. ... - see definition of variable called 'item' below).

Here's the code:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application app = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._NameSpace ns = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.PostItem item = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder inboxFolder = null;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder subFolder = null;

try
{
app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
ns = app.GetNamespace("MAPI");
ns.Logon(null,null,false, false);

inboxFolder = ns.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
subFolder = inboxFolder.Folders["MySubFolderName"]; //folder.Folders[1]; also works
Console.WriteLine("Folder Name: {0}, EntryId: {1}", subFolder.Name, subFolder.EntryID);
Console.WriteLine("Num Items: {0}", subFolder.Items.Count.ToString());

for(int i=1;i<=subFolder.Items.Count;i++)
{
item = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.PostItem)subFolder.Items[i];
Console.WriteLine("Item: {0}", i.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Subject: {0}", item.Subject);
Console.WriteLine("Sent: {0} {1}" item.SentOn.ToLongDateString(), item.SentOn.ToLongTimeString());
Console.WriteLine("Categories: {0}", item.Categories);
Console.WriteLine("Body: {0}", item.Body);
Console.WriteLine("HTMLBody: {0}", item.HTMLBody);
}
}
catch (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
finally
{
ns = null;
app = null;
inboxFolder = null;
}

For more info:
http://www.programminghelp.com/programming/dotnet/access-your-email-within-outlook-final-part-c/