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 Downloading e-mail attachments?

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SergioM
Posting Yak Master

170 Posts

Posted - 2012-10-11 : 11:21:50
Some of the files that I need to process come in the form of e-mail attachments. Since I can't do it out of the box, I looked at the following solutions. But neither one is for me. Is there an alternative? How do you process e-mail attachments for SSIS

Download Mail Task from Codeplex
http://downloadmailtask.codeplex.com/
A great idea, but it just doesn't work. It may work (or may once have worked) with SQL 2005, but I can't get it to work on SQL 2005 & it definitely doesn't work in 2008. Though this still might be the cheapest alternative if I outsource the work

Receive Mail Task from Cozyroc
http://www.cozyroc.com/ssis/receive-mail-task
Clearly the easiest solution. I only mention it so that no one else suggests it to me. The project I'm working on can't invest $2.5K

MailDrop (non-SSIS)
http://www.getmaildrop.com/
Then I figured, maybe I would use something else & refer to the files locally. But the only free software I found has one final update which basically says it is not working. No previous versions are offered.

Tips, ideas, conclusions?

SergioM
Posting Yak Master

170 Posts

Posted - 2012-10-11 : 12:12:10
UPDATE: I am now finding a lot of good snippets of code for downloading e-mail attachments. I'll probably just go that route with a script task. Especially since I'm perfectly OK with deleting the e-mail after it's downloaded (thereby simplifying the whole process). This may not be the place to ask, but can anyone point me to a good tutorial?
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