Outlook Automation

[Alain Stouder OmnisNews]

Well, we asked him to develop the external so we know it exists.

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> On 4 mars 2015, at 19:42, Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com> wrote:
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> Kelly ? Cannot see anything like that on your web pages ???
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>> On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com> wrote:
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>> Didn’t know that :)
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>>> On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Alain Stouder OmnisNews <omnis at smartway.ch> wrote:
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>>> BTW, Kelly has an x-platform external to open a .msg file and extract attachments...
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>>> Just saying.
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>>>> On 4 mars 2015, at 19:23, Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com> wrote:
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>>>> 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)
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>>>> 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…..
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>>>> So just seeing if anyone has that to hand to save reinventing !!
>>>> 
>>>> Andy
>>>> 
>>>> ps this is what I have at the moment :
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>>>> On evDrop
>>>> 
>>>> ……….other stuff……..
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>>>> 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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