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 Introduction

Sooner or later, we all have to face the problem of an overloaded number of emails and mail attachments to our Outlook account. Some of them are important to our business, as well, so we really need to save these email messages and attachments. Manually saving messages and attachments is a time-consuming process. So, we need to export these emails and other Outlook items to PST (Personal Storage File) files. The PST file is an archive for all items in an Outlook account. So, after exporting this file to storage media, we can process the PST file to get loose data and messages out of it. In this article, I am going to show you how we can extract this PST file through a .NET application.

Background

Basically, to deal with Outlook in a .NET application, we need an interface named MAPI. MAPI stands for Messaging Application Programming Interface and is provided by Microsoft for Outlook programming. Using MAPI, we can access folders like Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items and so on that reside in a PST file. We can even create sessions and namespace to fetch items from Outlook or, say, from a PST file. Currently, MAPI is the only namespace provided by Microsoft to extract PST files. For further information on MAPI, I suggest newbies visit the relevant MSDN article.

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