Downloading mail from a particular "user"

[Maury Markowitz]

We have set up a user account in Outlook (Exchange server) that we use
as a drop box for files being sent to us from a variety of business
partners. Some of these files contain data that I need to access
across our network. I'm fairly familiar with using DCOM to call Office
applications across the system (we do it all the time in Excel<-

Access) but the Outlook object model is completely new to me.

So can anyone offer a good starting point for this? Basically all I
have to do is log into that account, check for mail from particular
addresses on a particular date, and if they exist, download the
attached file to a network directory that is mounted as a drive
letter. From that point on I can open and process the file using
existing Excel methods.

Outlook doesn't have to be used for this, that's just the first thing
that popped into my mind. If there is some why to directly interact
with Exchange that would be just as good. I seem to recall there is
some sort of ODBC access in Exchange, but I believe that's only for
public forums?

Maury

p.s. Is anyone else having problems posting from the MS web site? The
pop-up editor doesn't seem to appear any more (yes, popup blocking is
off).