Storing Outlook emails in a Microsoft SQL Server database
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23-09-2019 - |
Question
I am using c# to write an Outlook 2007 add-in to store emails in a SQL Server 2005 database. I would like to be able to store the entire .msg file in a varbinary(MAX)
field. Is there a way to do this without having to use the Outlook MailItem
's SaveAs()
method to save to a temp file and then read the file back in? I will need to transfer a large number of emails to the database and would prefer to avoid costly disk reads and writes.
Solution
If you are looking to actually store it as a .msg format file, without trying to re-write this yourself, I would say that you are looking at going the route you mentioned.
Personally I would go to storing bits and pieces of the email, but that depends on exactly what you are going to do with it. Storing a MSG file in an DB in my opinion isn't really anything of value. now your use case might prove otherwise.
OTHER TIPS
Possibly.
Depending on your setup, you can avoid Outlook and just use Exchange/SQL Server.
I've never tried it so YMMV