Export EMAIL to DOCX via .NET
.NET API to Render EMAIL to DOCX on Windows, macOS, and Linux without using Word or Outlook
As a .NET developer, you may need to add EMAIL to DOCX conversion features to your applications. To do this, you can use the powerful file format manipulation APIs provided by Aspose.Total for .NET. Aspose.Total for .NET is a suite of APIs that enables developers to work with a wide range of file formats, including EMAIL and DOCX.
Using Aspose.Email for .NET, you can easily convert EMAIL files to HTML. This API provides a comprehensive set of features that allow you to manipulate EMAIL files with ease. It supports a wide range of EMAIL file formats, including MSG, EML, MHTML, and EMLX. It also provides features such as message extraction, message conversion, and message manipulation.
Once you have converted the EMAIL file to HTML, you can use Aspose.Words for .NET to render the HTML to DOCX. Aspose.Words for .NET is a powerful API that enables developers to create, edit, and convert DOCX files. It provides features such as document manipulation, document conversion, and document rendering. It also supports a wide range of document formats, including DOC, DOCX, ODT, and HTML.
By using Aspose.Total for .NET, you can easily add EMAIL to DOCX conversion features to your applications. Aspose.Email for .NET enables you to convert EMAIL files to HTML, and Aspose.Words for .NET enables you to render HTML to DOCX. With these powerful APIs, you can easily add EMAIL to DOCX conversion features to your applications.
C# API to Convert EMAIL to DOCX
- Open EMAIL file using MailMessage class
- Convert EMAIL to HTML by using Save method
- Load HTML by using Document class
- Save the document to DOCX format using Save method and set Docx as SaveFormat
Get Started with .NET File Format APIs
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MailMessage message = MailMessage.Load("sourceFile.msg");
// save EMAIL as a HTML
message.Save("HtmlOutput.html", SaveOptions.DefaultHtml);
// load HTML with an instance of Document
Document document = new Document("HtmlOutput.html");
// call save method while passing SaveFormat.Docx
document.Save("output.docx", SaveFormat.Docx);
Parse EMAIL File via .NET
Before converting EMAIL to DOCX, if you want to make sure that you are converting the correct email, you can load EMAIL document, parse it and have a look at your desired property. By using MapiMessage class of Aspose.Email for .NET API, you can get sender and recipients information. For example, you can check for a specific sender email for the conversion by using SenderName property.
var outlookMessageFile = MapiMessage.FromFile("message.msg");
// check for SenderName
if(outlookMessageFile.SenderName == "John"){
//proceed with conversion process
}
Restrict DOCX Document Editing via .NET
While saving the document from EMAIL to DOCX, you might need to protect your output document. Sometimes you may need to limit the ability to edit a document and only allow certain actions with it. This can be useful to prevent other people from editing sensitive and confidential information in your document. Aspose.Words for .NET API, enables you to control the way you restrict the content using the ProtectionType enumeration parameter. You can set your document to read-only by using the following lines of code.
Document document = new Document("HtmlOutput.html");
// apply document protection and set protection password
doc.Protect(ProtectionType.ReadOnly, "password");
// call save method while passing SaveFormat.Docx
document.Save("output.docx", SaveFormat.Docx);