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Extracting Contact Groups from PST

#1

Hi,

How do we extract only contact groups from a PST? Another question: Contacts in a distribution list can be saved to disc?

Thanks

#2
Hi Mark,

Contacts group or Distribution list has message class "IPM.DistList" and can be extract from the contacts folder using this filtering criteria. Please have a look at the following code sample for your reference.

PersonalStorage pst = PersonalStorage.FromFile(strPst);

FolderInfo folderInfo = pst.GetPredefinedFolder(StandardIpmFolder.Contacts);

MessageInfoCollection msgInfoCol = folderInfo.GetContents();

foreach (MessageInfo msgInfo in msgInfoCol)

{

MapiMessage msg = pst.ExtractMessage(msgInfo);

if (msgInfo.MessageClass.Equals("IPM.DistList"))

{

MapiDistributionList dlist = (MapiDistributionList)msg.ToMapiMessageItem();

foreach (MapiDistributionListMember member in dlist.Members)

{

Console.WriteLine(member.DisplayName);

Console.WriteLine(member.EmailAddress);

}

}

}


#3

Hi team,
I am extracting messages from pst. when i got Contact folder , want to save DistributionList messages.
so how do i get message class of distributionList in JAVA.
like that : msgInfo.MessageClass.Equals(“IPM.DistList”;

#4

@pradeepnegi,

Thank you for contacting Aspose Support.

You may check the MessageClass in Java as shown below.

if (msgInfo.getMessageClass().equals("IPM.DistList")) {
    MapiDistributionList dlist = (MapiDistributionList)msg.toMapiMessageItem();
    for (MapiDistributionListMember member : dlist.getMembers()) {
        System.out.println(member.getDisplayName());
        System.out.println(member.getEmailAddress());
    }
}

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