[thelist] Copying e-mails to a database

Tab Alleman Tab.Alleman at MetroGuide.com
Tue Jun 15 15:50:15 CDT 2004


Kevin Stevens wrote:
> A while ago I did a site for a large British charity. This included
> putting all the e-mails we recieve into a searchable on-line
> database. Because the list is very low traffic I just cut & pasted
> the contents of the mails into the db. The charity were thrilled with
> the results, so much so that they want me to do a similar site that
> will handle a much larger volume of traffic. Can anyone point me in
> the direction of any web sites/programs/code that will allow me to do
> this? The programming will be done with ASP using Access (no flames
> please, I know it's not the best option). 

As another evolter just advised me, look up CDO on the msdn site.  It
provides an interface for accessing email with ASP code...I've read
through the introductory documentation and it looks simple enough.


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