Outlook Automation

[Alain Stouder OmnisNews]

BTW, Kelly has an x-platform external to open a .msg file and extract attachments...

Just saying.

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> On 4 mars 2015, at 19:23, Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there is an Outlook automation command to output an email message as plain text ?
> 
> I have code that handles creating a file of an Outlook message (it comes out as a .msg file) - but I have some environments where not everyone uses the same app for emails (i.e. not all using Outlook) so I am looking to change saving the email message from being an Outlook ‘file’ to being plain text (so save it as a .txt file instead)
> 
> I can just save the file I get from Outlook as a .txt file but it includes the binary gunk at the beginning - and I am sure there must be a way to output the text only portion…..
> 
> So just seeing if anyone has that to hand to save reinventing !!
> 
> Andy
> 
> ps this is what I have at the moment :
> 
> On evDrop
> 
> ……….other stuff……..
> 
> If cn.$:Platform=kMSWindows
> ;  could be an Outlook drop
> Do method GetAutomationObject ("Outlook.App") Returns oOutlook
> If not(isnull(oOutlook))
> Do oOutlook.$createobject()
> If not(isnull(oOutlook))
> Do oOutlook.$activeexplorer() Returns oActiveExplorer
> If not(isnull(oActiveExplorer))
> Do oActiveExplorer.$selection() Returns oSelection
> If not(isnull(oSelection))
> Calculate xCount as oSelection.$xcount
> For xCountItemNumber from 1 to xCount step 1
> Calculate oMailItem as oSelection.$item(xCountItemNumber)
> If not(isnull(oMailItem))
> ……..go ahead and save the file……..
> Do oMailItem.$saveas(con(local_prefs.$:ImagesFolderPath(),MainID,'-',lCounter,'.msg'))
> 
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