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This activity allows you to read a .eml file (email file) and to convert into a .Net MailMessage object. The .Net object can be handled in any RPA workflow as your automation requires.

an archive of saved emails can be easily transformed into a database table for ease of use

any saved .eml can be 'read' and be used as necessary (for example save the attachment or read that one too or respond to email sender automatically)

from an entire folder with .eml files you can search the one(s) corresponding to your needs (for example if you have an archive with emails containing reports, you can find the right one using this activity and looking into each MailMessage object for key words)

NOTE: Installation Guidelines for Custom Activities can be found here.

This activity returns a .net MailMessage object, that can be handled by other existing activities, from a saved .eml file.

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Are Email Headers available after reading the file?Ex. mail.headers("Date").tostring

Hi, just seeing if there is a way to configure where the file (I assume an email) is temporarily stored when being read to an object?When the activity runs, it looks like a copy is generated in C:\Temp - a directory I don't have access to (keeps getting denied) is there a way to point to a different directory?Cheers, Beni

Cool, thanks for your quick response to my last question :)I've got temporary permission to have access to the C:\Temp directory to get my PoC working.Question 1). I seem to be able to extract email attachments of type .eml from a .eml file, but extracting other file types such as .xlsx or .pdf or .msg from an .eml doesn't seem to happen - is this correct?Question 2). Can I use Read saved email to object to open a .msg file which has been saved to a folder?Cheers,Beni

Thank you. I have install your package 1.0.6. It seem ok went i get file .eml to object. But i have a trouble when get subject from object. The value emailMessage.subject can not display correct. I mean that empty value. Could you help me show that value. Thank

Works great for .eml (E-mail message) files, but not for .msg (Outlook Item) files. Is there a version for .msg files ?

Hi Cate, thanks for the custom activity. This works perfectly for almost all the cases but we have a failure of around 3% of the cases for the reason "Write to file failed". Do you know the reason why is this failing for this reason. Is there anything we have to do for this error to make it work?

Would I be able to use a Move IMAP mail message activity with the created object. My use case being to save emails to the hard drive and their path to a queue in orchestrator. Then being able to move the emails to a different mail folder depending on the outcome of the process done on each email.

I keep getting Write to file failed when using this activity.I've tried running the robot with Admin privileges, taking ownership of the C:\Temp folder and by setting read write execute permissions for everyone. None of these worked for me, can you please help?

Update:I found the cause of my issue, outlook lets you add multiple files with the same filename.In this case the activity cannot save the same file twice.Is there a way for a unique identifier or a counter to be added to the filename in such cases?

i have a problem when using reply on mail activity it keep showing "invalid mail message"i do think the main problem here on mail headers is missing or something like that .please can u share the code of the activity ?

Hi there, unfortunately I see only the version 1.0.0 in my Studio. Do you know by any chance what may be the reason? Your activity is exactly what I need :). Thanks a lot in advance!Cheers,Alex

Hi, I am using the uipath reademail from saved file to object and had seen the output as expected but in one of the scenario's, the bot is reading the digital signature as a filename and is deviating from the behaviour as the file name contains numbers matching with the policy pattern. Is there a way we can ignore this metadata? Below is the example[cid:image003.jpg@21112019.2405757#image003.jpg]Danielle Papa for and on behalf ofMasha&amp;Bear Solicitors Limited:danielle.papa@xxx.com

Hello, The activity is not working for me. It gets all the email properties as null or empty strings. Do you know what could be the problem?

Hi, I have a question asked before about mail.subject. My email subject don't use special characters.I putted variable named "mail" to the EmailNet on the outputThanks

Hi  i am getting the message file could not be opened with exception System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException. Did you come across this before if so is there a resoltion ? please let me know.

We have installed your Package version 1.0.115 and we are trying to read email from Saved File, it is not working if in the eml File a .msg file exist.

we are getting the error: "Retry Scope: Write to file failed."

Can you help in how to convert MailMessage object  to data table 

Actually, in our .eml file we have so many tables. we want that exact structure in an excel file or data table. Can you help us by showing an example?

Hi Catalin. I'm encountering and issue when trying to conver .eml messages that have in attachment another .eml file. The output error is "Write to file failed". For .eml containing other types of attachments, it works fine. Could you please advise?

However I am facing an issue when I use it in my workflow.

In my workflow I do not need attachments on disk. I just need the MailMessage object. Therefore I want to delete "AttachmentsPath" right after the activity finish. 

But I get error "The process cannot access the file 'xxxx.xlsx' because it is being used by another process." Seems the component doesn't release controll of the saved file. 

Alternatively would it be possible to not save attachment at all (e.g. if "AttachmentsPath" is empty)

I have tried using the activity ReademailfromSavedobject, have given .eml file name and file path. In output given the object variable. and we tried to get the attachment count using that object varaible, but it is not showing the correct value.

For Eg: if I have given objvar.attachments.count.tostring in message box it always return 0. if there is a attachment.

Extension tries to write to c:\temp instead of Environmentvariable TEMP (usually something like

It would be even better if the temp folder is configurable

Great Component - It is a good tool to catch up an email from file.
Sometimes that way need to solve our challenge.


Great Component - Fills a need that I've seen multiple times throughout the UiPath forums. 
Great work Catalin!


 - I could easily read the .eml file saved from Gmail.A temporary storage folder for attached files is created in C: \ temp, but I think it would be good if you could specify the location of the temporary storage folder.


Very useful component for processes where a large number of emails have a high percentage of attachments of various MSFT file types. The potential for polling of such attachments and the ability to categorise them according to sender, subject matter, context of usage is quite interesting even if controlled manual interventions to tweak results are sometimes needed, but the benefit far exceeds the latter.
Thank you, we will surely continue to test this component and see where improvements could be made. Great work !

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