How to save attachment from the list of downloaded emails in the folder

[bp777]

Hello all,

I have a situation where I download a lot of emails in the input folder.
Once downloaded, I am trying to save attachment for each downloaded email.

Does anyone have idea how could I achieve that?

Thank you in advance.

[ashokkarale]

Hi @bp777,

Follow these steps:

1. Create a New Sequence in UiPath.
2. Get Email Files from Folder

• Use the Assign activity to get all email files from the input folder.
  • emailFiles = Directory.GetFiles("C:\path\to\your\input\folder", "*.eml")
  • emailFiles is a variable of type String[].

3. For Each Email File

• Drag and drop the For Each activity.
• Set the TypeArgument to String.
• In the Values field, set it to emailFiles.

4. Inside the For Each Loop

• Load and Parse Email
  • Use the Invoke Code activity to load and parse the email using the MailMessage class.

Dim mail As New System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
Dim client As New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient
client.DeliveryMethod = System.Net.Mail.SmtpDeliveryMethod.SpecifiedPickupDirectory
client.PickupDirectoryLocation = Path.GetDirectoryName(emailFile)
client.Send(mail)
mail = client.SendMailAsync(emailFile).Result

* `emailFile` is the current file in the loop.

• Check for Attachments
  • Use an If activity to check if the email has attachments: mail.Attachments.Any.
• Save Attachments
  • If true, drag and drop the Save Attachments activity inside the Then block of the If activity.
  • Set the properties:
    • MailMessage: Set to mail.
    • FolderPath: The folder path where you want to save the attachments, e.g., Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "Attachments").

LLM helped me to write this answer but it’s cross checked by me.

Thanks,
Ashok

[bp777]

Hello,

I get error "error BC30451: ‘emailFile’ is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.

[ashokkarale]

@bp777,

You missed to pass the arguments to Invoke code.

Click on Edit Argument and pass like this.

emailFile is the current file in the loop

Thanks,
Ashok