Save email attached file to computer?

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Hi everyone,

I need to open a spreadsheet file attached in a email every 10 minutes. I have used the attached VI "Get all messages" to open the email. I can see the first line of my spreadsheet file appear in the Message Summary box.

However I would like to be able to save the spreadsheet file directly to my computer (so that I don't have to rebuild the file using the message Summary box). Does anybody know if a VI that does this already exists?

Any help would be great,

Thanks a lot,

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[ElRambo]

Hi,

Actually there is no VI that is doing what you want. You will have to use the POP VIs and the file management VIs to make it. Maybe the POP functionnalities used in the POP VIs you have downloaded are not enough, and you will have to write your own POP functions.

Basically, the POP VIs retrieve the data from the e-mail server, and you have to write these data to a binary file to re-create the file attached in your e-mail. That's what you have almost done right ?

Moreover, if you speak French I advise you to post on the French part of the forum right here : Discussions de Produits de NI .

Hope this helps.

Have a nice day !

Regards,

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Hi Maxime,

Thank you very much for your answer and telling me this VI doesn't already existed. However I am still surprised that this "basic" function (basic as a every day used function not basic as a level of diffculty making up the program)  hasn't been developped by NI....

Best Regards,

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