Outlook Automation (parsing MSG files)

[Kelly Burgess]

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

Hi Andy,

I'll talk to my marketing person about that, but he isn't a good listener.  You'll recognize that when you see 'New' tags on things that are several years old - not to mention still seeing listings about Omnis 3+ and Omnis 5 externals that won't even work on modern OSes. . .

Here's the ParseMSG external command I built for Alain -

;  ParseMSG.Summarize (MSGpath, summaryList [,partsFolderPath]) Returns err
;  - MSGpath is the path to the .msg file you want to summarize
;  - summaryList is a 2-column list of name / value character fields, defined before calling, filled with summary info on return
;  - partsFolderPath is an optional path to an existing folder where .msg parts (message and attachments) will be written on return
;  -    (omit the third parameter to get a summary list only; include it to have any attachments written out to disk files)

I'll send you a screenshot off list, but essentially the parts you get back include (at least the one I just tested did) :

Subject, Reply Type, Message ID, From, Prefix, Body, Number of Attachments, Recipient Names (To/CC/BCC), Date Sent, Date Received, Date Reply.

I see plain text in Body, but I don't know if the original I parsed contained html markup or not.

Kelly