Question

I need to export (save to) hard drive my Lotus Notes emails.
I figured out the way how to save attachments to HDD, but I can’t figure out the way of how to save the whole email.

The code below shows how I export attachments. Can you suggest how can I modify it to save emails?
PS- I am new to programming.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Domino;
using System.Collections;

namespace ExportLotusAttachments
{
  class Class1
  {
    public void ScanForEmails()
    {
      String textBox1 = "c:\\1";
      NotesSession session = new NotesSession();
      session.Initialize("");
      NotesDbDirectory dir = null;
      dir = session.GetDbDirectory("");
      NotesDatabase db = null;
      db = dir.OpenMailDatabase();
      NotesDatabase NDb = dir.OpenMailDatabase(); //Database connection

      //ArrayList that will hold names of the folders
      ArrayList LotusViews2 = new ArrayList(); 

      foreach (NotesView V in NDb.Views)
      {
        if (V.IsFolder && !(V.Name.Equals("($All)")))
        {
          NotesView getS = V;
          LotusViews2.Add(getS.Name);
        }
      }

      foreach (String obj in LotusViews2)
      {
        NotesDocument NDoc;
        NotesView nInboxDocs = NDb.GetView(obj);
        NDoc = nInboxDocs.GetFirstDocument();
        String pAttachment;

        while (NDoc != null)
        {
          if (NDoc.HasEmbedded && NDoc.HasItem("$File"))
          {
            object[] AllDocItems = (object[])NDoc.Items;
            foreach (object CurItem in AllDocItems)
            {
              NotesItem nItem = (NotesItem)CurItem;
              if (IT_TYPE.ATTACHMENT == nItem.type)
              {
                String path = textBox1;
                pAttachment = ((object[])nItem.Values)[0].ToString();

                if (!System.IO.Directory.Exists(path))
                {
                  System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(textBox1);
                }

                try
                {
                  NDoc.GetAttachment(pAttachment).ExtractFile(@path + pAttachment);
                }
                catch { }
              }
            }
          }
          NDoc = nInboxDocs.GetNextDocument(NDoc);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Answer 1

This post by Bob Babalan explains how to export lotus documents using Java. The same principle should work in C# or VB. The document is cnverted into MIME and written to the disk.

Or in version 8.5.3 (I think it started witn 8.5.1) you can just drag and drop it from the mail file to the file system.