Outlook Automation

[Andy Hilton]

Didn’t know that :)

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Alain Stouder OmnisNews <omnis at smartway.ch> wrote:
> 
> BTW, Kelly has an x-platform external to open a .msg file and extract attachments...
> 
> Just saying.
> 
> ---
> Learn something new everyday!
> 
>> 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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