Hello, Typically email attachments are added to the text of a mail message just as you are seeing in the mail browser. To extract files from this data you must parse it from the message text. The protocol for how this info is encoded is called MIME.
Documents called RFCs define this protocol. These RFCs can be retrieved from http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html. The RFCs corresponding to MIME are 1521, 1522, 1524, 1563, 1437, 1652, 1651, 1556, 1740, and 1741. Another option is to look at the =93SMTP Email Send File=94 VI included with LabVIEW 7.0. This VI encodes a file into MIME to transmit via SMTP. You could look at this code to try and reverse engineer it to decode MIME. Hope this helps! Let me know if I can help with or clarify anything. Ken S. National Instruments
