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dvasilakis
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Posted: 27 January 2009 at 2:38pm \| IP Logged

i try to get an outlook mail with an embedded item in html body and save it as eml. More specific in
html body there is a file with extension .wav.The problem is that i get it as an attachment and in
its place in the html body appears <<...>>.I dont know what to do. The problem is that on my example
theres no contentid for the embedded item.So i dont know how to use msg.Attachments.Add

Below theres the snippet code

msg = New MailBee.Mime.MailMessage()

For Each attach As RDOAttachment In rdoMail.Attachments
     attach.SaveAsFile(Path & attach.FileName)
     If rdoAttachmentType.olEmbeddedItem Then
           msg.Attachments.Add(TemporaryPath & attach.FileName, attach.FileName)
     ElseIf rdoAttachmentType.olByValue Then
           If Not attach.Hidden Then
           msg.Attachments.Add(Path & attach.FileName, attach.FileName)
           Else
           contentID = attach.Fields(PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID)
           msg.Attachments.Add(TemporaryPath & attach.FileName, attach.FileName, contentID)
           End If
     End If
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Igor
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Posted: 28 January 2009 at 3:02am \| IP Logged

Any file embedded in html message body must have ContentID set for it. In case if ContentID is not available, file is treated as attacment and not as an embedded object.

It looks like the code you provided requires rechecking with regard to its logic and structure. Particularly, the first "If" clause seems to check if the item is embedded, but in fact you process the file as a non-embedded one. Try switching places for the following code blocks:

Code:

msg.Attachments.Add(TemporaryPath & attach.FileName, attach.FileName)

and

Code:

contentID = attach.Fields(PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID) 

msg.Attachments.Add(TemporaryPath & attach.FileName, attach.FileName, contentID)

Regards,
Igor

jvinis
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Posted: 28 January 2009 at 3:12am \| IP Logged

Sorry if i was mistaken but the mail body is rich text type(rtf) and not html body. So theres no contentid.

Andrew
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Posted: 28 January 2009 at 3:37am \| IP Logged

Usually, RTF documents contain all embedded objects inside, i.e. even if an RTF document contains three images, it's still a single file, while HTML documents can't contain embedded objects inside, i.e. an HTML document with three images is HTML file plus 3 image files.

If you're sure the file in question is an object embedded into RTF body, but it's not a part of the RTF document, but an attachment, this is a specific feature of proprietary MS Outlook format.

EML files don't support RTF bodies with external embedded objects. Moreover, most mailers are not able to read messages with RTF bodies. The only way to get it working for sure is to convert the RTF body into HTML format and track all the embedded objects in your application to assign Content-ID to them. As the result, you should get standard EML message with HTML bodies and embedded objects linked by Content-ID. Any popular mailer would be able to read such a message.

Best regards,
Andrew

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