Hi all

I am a bit stuck in this problem


I want to display an email's contents thru an HTML popup. the mails i get in my Application folder are of EML type.

Previously i linked those directly to d/load on user's machine, but client doesn't want to use Outlook Express. What they want is to get email details
like FROM ,TO et cetera.

I have tried to search for MIME decoding on MSDN, dbforums but in vain.

Thanks
Yogesh Jangam

So you just want to open the conents of the EML into a browser window? Does it have to be formatted nicely, or can you just dump the contents of the EML into the HTML?

hi

are clients ever happy with raw display. ;-) yes they want cute, formatted display.

even if possible show it's attachment.

i thot of an option 2 is to convert EMl to MSG format but seem to get no where !!!!

Thanks for the answer

Can you attach a sample EML file? I can't find one on my PC.

Hi

Pleas find attached in zip 2 eml files
with and without attachments

EML001 - Without attachments
EML002 - With attachments

Thanks
Yogesh Jangam.

Ok.. it's 11:00PM here, so I'm going to bed, but here's some info that may help you. There is a content type called "message". It has a subtype of "rfc822". If you don't need to format it a specific way, but still need it parsed, try opening a filesystem object, read the file in, and write it to the client in a "message/rfc822" content type. I don't know if this will work, but I can play with it tomorrow.

Now, if you need to format it to the client's requirements, you'll probably need to parse the EML yourself. Meaning, create a filesystem object, read in line by line and put each line through a test checking for certain string criteria ("From:", "To:", etc). Then store the values in variables and display them where you want them to. The tricky part will be attachments. You'll need to create a separate ASP that just parses the EML, pulls the content type and name of the attachment and then sends just the data in that content type you pull. Then on your original page, you have a link to the attachment that points to your new ASP page, passing two parameters (the EML filename, and which attachment - if there are more than one). Clicking that link calls to the second ASP which parses the EML, pulls out the attachment and sends it to the client in the format the attachment is coded in.

It'd take some work, but it seems feasible.

BTW: here is a link on the message/rfc822 content type

http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1521/23.htm

Thanks for ur help

I have sorted that problem out [temporarily of course]

I am able to display EML file's contents using

It doesn't show attachments but for now it is acceptable.