Receiving Mail
Mail can be received in the following way (must be initialized first):
- Open the mailbox with incoming mail using the
MailOpenInBox function.
- The
MailBoxLoad function will load/view the mailbox contents and write incoming e-mail to the special database tables. The list of incoming e-mail can be displayed and ordered using common database operations.
- The text of the selected letter (and/or the text of the header) can be stored in the database using the
MailBoxGetMsg or MailBoxGetMsgEx functions (if it was not previously loaded using the MailBoxLoad function).
- Attachments (if they were not previously loaded using the
MailBoxLoad function) can be stored in the database by the MailBoxGetFilInfo function.
- The
MailBoxSaveFileAs function saves a specified mail attachment to disk. The MailBoxSaveFileDBs function (or MailBoxSaveFileDBr) saves the specified file attachment into the database.
- E-mail that is no longer needed can be deleted using the
MailBoxDeleteMsg function.
- The mailbox can be closed using the
MailCloseInBox function.
The functions for receiving e-mail that work with system tables (e.g. MailBoxLoad, MailBoxGetFilInfo, MailBoxGetMsgEx, MailBoxGetMsg, MailBoxSaveFileDBs, and MailBoxSaveFileDBr) cause a transaction to auto-commit.
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