topic Re: extract email attachment in Application Development and Automation Discussions

extract email attachment

Former Member — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:06:08 GMT

Hi SDN,

I'm looking for a solution to extract attachments of an email (such as pdf's or tif's) once I have the email in SAP via SO28 and access them through abap.

Any help appreciated!

Re: extract email attachment

Former Member — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:17:42 GMT

Hi Torsten,

You can follow the following links :

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/reporting/email/email_mbody.htm

http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/abap011.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/code/abap15.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/code/abap31.htm

Regards,

Kunal.

Re: extract email attachment

Former Member — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:44:39 GMT

Kunal,

sorry that I was precise enough. I'm actually talking about the scenario, where we RECEIVE and email (i.e. with an Adobe pdf) and need to extract the pdf attachment from the email after receiving.

Some hints would really help me a lot.

Cheers,

Torsten

Re: extract email attachment

Former Member — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:51:25 GMT

Hi,

Usually this is done by a middleware like XI which is capable of reading a mail from the mail box using a MAIL Adapter. I don't know if the same can be done using ABAP.

Regards,

Ravi

Re: extract email attachment

Former Member — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:01:05 GMT

Implementing an entire XI infrastructure sounds like a lot of effort to provide this piece of functionality.

Wouldn't it be possible to extract the attachement somehow from the binary of the email?

Torsten

Re: extract email attachment

athavanraja — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:43:00 GMT

if you are on WAS 6.10 and above you can achieve this and there is an excellent weblog by Thomas Jung on this topic at

/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/09/09/receiving-e-mail-and-processing-it-with-abap--version-610-and-higher

Regards

Raja