Open an Attachment

[mike.thompson]

We are using Outlook oft forms to process requests. The forms are sent
to a mailbox where the data is extracted to an Access database via VBA.
Generally this works and there is no issue with most of the forms.

Here is my issue:
Sometimes the oft documents are sent as attachments. How do I:
Read the attachment (oft form), or
move the attachment to a folder.

I need to get the data from these forms into the database. I can
manually open each of the attachments and move the form into a folder
where I can process normally.

Mike

 

[Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]]

You'll have to save the attachment to a file before you can get a full handle
to the item in the Outlook Object Model. Use CreateItemFromTemplate and pass
the file path to retrieve it.