Accessing Exchange Public Folders

Question

Hi all,

I've been approached to write an app that will run on schedule accessing emails in a public folder in exchange and extracting the attachments. I dont have any experience working with outlook. I've had a play with the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook object but can't find a way to interact with exchange.

Would I use Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook or maybe MAPI?

Basically i'm looking for help to get started. Could any point me in the right direct (links etc).

I dont have access to the exchange server either, so its going to be trial and error to get it right.

Thanks in advance,
Wilky.