Work with mail items
Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
Note
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The MailItem class contains the methods and properties you use to perform tasks with email messages.
| Task | Procedure |
|---|---|
| Create an e-mail message. | How to: Programmatically create an email item |
| Send an e-mail message. | How to: Programmatically send email |
| Respond to new e-mail messages with a custom action. | How to: Programmatically perform actions when an email message is received |
| Save attachments. | How to: Programmatically save attachments from Outlook email items |
| Add attachments | How to: Programmatically attach files to Outlook email items |
| Iterate through all unread messages. | How to: Programmatically retrieve unread messages from the inbox |
For more information about Outlook tasks and the Outlook object model, see Outlook object model overview.