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Posted: 01 November 2007 at 7:36am | IP Logged Quote oblivionsy
I want to extract embedded images from the emails and save them as files to disk. I'd also like to have a threshold size limit so any image under 2k for example is ignored. Please can you tell me how to achieve this?
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Posted: 01 November 2007 at 8:00am | IP Logged Quote Andrew
You should iterate through MailMessage.Attachments collection and check Attachment.Size property of each attachment, then save necessary attachments via Attachment.SaveToFolder method.

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Posted: 01 November 2007 at 8:02am | IP Logged Quote oblivionsy
Are the embedded emails (ie html inline images) included in the attachment collection?
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Posted: 01 November 2007 at 8:06am | IP Logged Quote Andrew
Yes, Attachment.IsInline property allows you to learn if the attachment is inline.

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Posted: 07 November 2007 at 4:13am | IP Logged Quote oblivionsy
Just following up on this - i have extracted the inline attachments and all works. A comment has been raised though which I wonder if you can help answer.

If my email says:
"please see this image
<image 1 embedded>
and it should be like
<image 2 embedded>
etc"

now the order of the images is important with the contextual part of the text. Is there any way to have some markers as to which image came from where? shout if that didn't make sense. Thanks!
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Posted: 07 November 2007 at 5:54am | IP Logged Quote Andrew
If attachments order is important for you, you may save attachments via Attachment.Save method and assign names with an index, like img01.jpg, img02.jpg, etc.

Also, please take a look at MailMessage.SaveHtmlAndRelatedFiles and MailMessage.GetHtmlAndSaveRelatedFiles methods, perhaps they'll be useful for you.

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Posted: 07 November 2007 at 9:21am | IP Logged Quote oblivionsy
the inline images are removed from the body part of the message. I guess although it is helpful havig the (inline) attachments readily available in the attachments collection, I really need to know where they appeared in the actual html body of the email they were embedded in.

so the example might be :
"please see this image

and it should be like
"

then the html body part might be altered to:
"please see this image
#Image01
and it should be like
#Image02 "

so we know precisly where the image came from within the email body. those smiley faces are then saved as normal (called Image01, Image02)

I am not sure how numbering them will help, since it is the original placement with respect to the surrounding text that is important.

Thanks
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Posted: 07 November 2007 at 9:34am | IP Logged Quote Alex
If I understood you correctly, you need to know where (in which IMG tag) certain embedded image is referred.

In most cases, embedded images are referred by their Content-ID. Thus, you should search msg.BodyHtmlText for "cid:" + Attachment.ContentID of the given embedded image.

For instance, IMG tag may look like: <IMG SRC="CID:4dh84sw9h"> and AttachmentCollection contains an attachment with ContentID="4dh84sw9h" and Inline=true.

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