Outlook Automation

[Andy Hilton]

Insider trading…..

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Alain Stouder OmnisNews <omnis at smartway.ch> wrote:
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> 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:
>> 
>> 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:
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>>> Didn’t know that :)
>>> 
>>>> 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...
>>>> 
>>>> Just saying.
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>>>> Learn something new everyday!
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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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