Question

I have an ASP.NET web forms application that pulls email from an IMAP account. I am using an IMAP control from nsoftware IP*Works to pull the emails. In order to download and save the attachments one does this…

for (int part = 0; part < imaps1.MessageParts.Count; part++)
{
    if (imaps1.MessageParts[part].FileName.Length > 0)
    {
        imaps1.LocalFile = "C:\\Users\\someguy\\Documents\\" + imaps1.MessageParts[part].FileName;
        imaps1.FetchMessagePart(imaps1.MessageParts[part].Id);
    }
}

But I don’t want it downloaded; I want the attachment to open.

How would I do that?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to save the attachment contents to Response.OutputStream rather than a file on disk.