Export EMAIL to PCL via .NET
.NET API to Render EMAIL to PCL on Windows, macOS, and Linux without using Word or Outlook
As a .NET developer, you may need to add EMAIL to PCL conversion features to your applications. To do this, you can use the powerful file format manipulation APIs provided by Aspose.Total for .NET. Aspose.Email for .NET is a comprehensive API that allows you to convert EMAIL file format to HTML. Once you have the HTML, you can use Aspose.Words for .NET to render it to PCL.
Aspose.Total for .NET is a suite of APIs that provides a comprehensive set of features for manipulating file formats. It includes APIs for manipulating Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, images, and other file formats. Aspose.Email for .NET is a powerful API that allows you to convert EMAIL file format to HTML. It supports a wide range of EMAIL file formats, including MSG, EML, MHTML, and EMLX. It also provides features for managing attachments, extracting message headers, and more.
Once you have the HTML, you can use Aspose.Words for .NET to render it to PCL. Aspose.Words for .NET is a powerful API that allows you to create, edit, and convert documents in a variety of formats. It supports a wide range of document formats, including DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, and PCL. It also provides features for manipulating document elements, such as paragraphs, tables, and images.
By using Aspose.Total for .NET, you can easily add EMAIL to PCL conversion features to your applications. Aspose.Email for .NET allows you to convert EMAIL file format to HTML, and Aspose.Words for .NET allows you to render HTML to PCL. With these powerful APIs, you can quickly and easily add EMAIL to PCL conversion features to your applications.
C# API to Convert EMAIL to PCL
- Open EMAIL file using MailMessage class
- Convert EMAIL to HTML by using Save method
- Load HTML by using Document class
- Save the document to PCL format using Save method and set Pcl 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.Pcl
document.Save("output.pcl", SaveFormat.Pcl);
Parse EMAIL File via .NET
Before converting EMAIL to PCL, 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 PCL Document Editing via .NET
While saving the document from EMAIL to PCL, 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.Pcl
document.Save("output.pcl", SaveFormat.Pcl);