Extracting attachments from "Outlook Item" .EML??

Hello. I am in the process of developing a windows service that will check an email server every 15-30min. I have not found an elegant solution to this problem as of yet. I know there is not a clean way to receive email with VB .NET. If you know of one, please let me know. Now, I am physically dragging my emails to a local folder. The problem is that it is not clear how to extract the .zip file from the .eml file that outlook creates with in VB .NET. Physically, I would simply open the email file and double click on the .zip file... save to disk... and extract. I would LOVE to have this automated. If you could help me with the extraction of the .zip file, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
brazilnut

There must be some kind of component/object around somewhere for handling email files. If it's not built into vb.net (i'm pretty sure it is), try googling for one, or check out 15 seconds.

You essentially have to separate issues, one is acquiring the emails, the other is reading/using them. There should be a component to do both.

Sorry... Outlook creates a .msg file not an .eml... So how can you loop through a directory and extract all the attachements from a .msg file and save them to another folder?

Thanks,
Andre