How to download the email with attachments to local drive?

[former_member569532]

Hi Experts,

I have a requirement to download the email message with attachments to local drive.I am using cl_bcs class to send the email out.Kindly anyone advise how to do this.

Thanks in advance,

Anusha.B

[Former Member]

Hi Anusha,

You have to send email with attachment or download the attachment from email?

Regards,

Srinath

[former_member569532]

I need to download the email to local drive.

[matt]

What as? Text, pdf? What software will be used to handle the downloaded email and attachments?

[former_member569532]

My attachemnts will have pdf,.xls,.txt,.doc extensions.I need to download the email content along with attachments.

[matt]

And what format did you want the email in?

[former_member569532]

I want to download the email with all recipeients to local drive

[matt]

And what format do you want the email and the recipients in?

[Juwin]

Where is the email sent to? Download from where? Outlook/ Gmail/ SAP Inbox/ SAP Outbox?

Thanks, Juwin

[former_member569532]

I need to download the email while sending from program.

[matt]

And what format do you want the email and the recipients in?

[former_member186746]

Hi,

What is the functional requirement here?

Because if all you want is to have 1 place where all the emails sent from SAP are stored and accessed, simply add a cc when you send the email to some generic email.

Kind regards, Rob Dielemans

[former_member569532]

HI,

They don't want  to send to CC email.They want to email message in shared drive.is it possible to do this/

[former_member186746]

Hi,

so functionally the requirement is "we want to have a shared space to see emails".

The functional requirement can be fulfilled 100% with a shared email address.

Kind regards, Rob Dielemans

[matt]

Probably in this instance the "they" is the functional analysts who are too dense to see the sensible solution.

Alternatively, it could the that the "they" is the business, and the functional analysts haven't been advising them of the sensible solution (probably because they can't think of one).

However, even if the emails are downloaded, we still don't know what format they should be in. This thread is getting close to being locked.

[former_member186746]

I think they is someone who knows a little bit about technology and is not good at dictating functional requirements. I've seen this a lot where the "functional" requirement is like: we need a program to download table EKPO with bla bla bla.

A correct functional requirement would be: we need the following purchasing information.

Then it can be a standard SAP program, a query, a CDS view, or indeed a program.

@ Anusha.B

Please try to challenge this requirement, or have a discussion with they and delve a bit deeper until you fully understand the business need. There has to be a better way to give the users what they want without creating unwanted reports.

[former_member569532]

They want the email in shared drive for audit purpose.

[matt]

For audit purposes a shared email account could just as well be used.

[former_member569532]

Hi All,

Thank you for your replies.I will try to expain them.

[Juwin]

Hi Matt/Rob, One reason why people may not like mailboxes is if there is a company policy where the emails get archived periodically. In our company the emails older than 30 days gets auto archived, which makes it extremely difficult to search for specific emails on outlook. We have to constantly move emails out of mailbox into PST folder in order to avoid this. This method will not work with a shared mailbox.

Hi Anu, Please check if your company has any such rules/ limitations in using a shared mailbox. Emails can be stored as text/PDF/zip/htm/msg etc. That's why Matthew has been asking you for the format. Please answer that, along with the steps you have taken till now to achieve that, and any issues you have faced on the way.

Thanks