Outlook Automation

[Andy Hilton]

Kelly ? Cannot see anything like that on your web pages ???

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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