> Hi! Please point me to the correct discussion if I am off base.
>
> We are beta testing a new Dot Net Framework application that allows us to
> upload documents of different file types for online storage with each of our
> transactions. We can easily drag and drop email attachments to the new
> application, but we cannot seem to drag and drop an email msg from Outlook.
>
> I suspect this may have something to do with security. We are able to export
> and save the email msg as a text file, and upload that, or drag and drop text
> directly from the email msg but this does not transfer any header info. The
> drag and drop method direct to the application would be far simpler and more
> timesaving.
>
> We know drag and drop is a possibility, as you are able to drag and drop an
> email msg file to the desktop for instance. I am correct? Is this issue
> actually a
> security function to prevent malicious code troubles?
>
> Best Regards,
> Ellen

"frank1***@lycos.com" wrote:

> I think drag and drop needs a directory to build the complete msg file
> (in a directory). Because you don't have one, it won't work.
>
> I see two possible solutions.
> 1) Let the user allways save the email as msg using File|SaveAs in one
> typical directory (e.g. c:\myapplication\). Let your application scan
> this directory every minute. Once a file is discovered, it can be
> imported into the application. You can save all other documents (word
> document, Powerpoint presentation) in that directory as well..
>
> 2) Or maybe mailtofile will help you more. This add in for Outlook let
> you save one (or more) email as a msg file. After saving, mailtofile
> can upload the file to your application.
> More information about mailtofile: www.mailtofile.com/en/
> We did customize mailtofile to upload outlook messages to the document
> management software (in a Oracle database).
>
> Frank
>
> Ellen schreef:
>
> > Hi! Please point me to the correct discussion if I am off base.
> >
> > We are beta testing a new Dot Net Framework application that allows us to
> > upload documents of different file types for online storage with each of our
> > transactions. We can easily drag and drop email attachments to the new
> > application, but we cannot seem to drag and drop an email msg from Outlook.
> >
> > I suspect this may have something to do with security. We are able to export
> > and save the email msg as a text file, and upload that, or drag and drop text
> > directly from the email msg but this does not transfer any header info. The
> > drag and drop method direct to the application would be far simpler and more
> > timesaving.
> >
> > We know drag and drop is a possibility, as you are able to drag and drop an
> > email msg file to the desktop for instance. I am correct? Is this issue
> > actually a
> > security function to prevent malicious code troubles?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ellen
>
>