How to Save Embedded Message into Files with CDO?

[nycboy]

I use CDO to read message attachments and I want to save them as files
into a file folder. However CDO does not support WriteToFile for
CdoFileLink or CdoEmbeddedMessage attachments, is there an alternative
way of saving these type of messages into files?

Thanks!

-David

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko \(MVP\)]

Embedded attachments in the RTF messages are are really OLE storage files
(IStorage), they are meaningless by themselves. Note that even Outlook won't
let you save such attachments as files.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[nycboy]

Thanks Dmitry.

Did you mean that I can't even save the .msg files
if they are Outlook attachments (with CDO)?

David

---- Original Message ----
Re: How to Save Embedded Message into Files with CDO?
From: Dmitry Streblechenko \(MVP\)
Date Posted: 11/9/2004 12:25:00 PM

Embedded attachments in the RTF messages are are really OLE storage
files
(IStorage), they are meaningless by themselves. Note that even Outlook
won't
let you save such attachments as files.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko \(MVP\)]

You can, but not with CDO - OOM should be fine (Attachment.SaveAsFile)
BTW, .MSG attachments are different from the embedded messages - .MSG
attachment is just a regular attachment with happens to contain an MSG file,
embedded message is an attachment of a special kind.
OLE attachments (embedded objects in RTF messages; plain text or HTML can
never have those) are off limits.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[nycboy]

But I am looking for a way of
recursively saving any .msg file
(if any) contained in a .msg file.
In other words, for any attached
msg file, I need to check whether
it contains .msg files itself. If
yes, I want to save them individually.
Is it possible to do?

Thanks.

David


---- original message ----
Re: How to Save Embedded Message into Files with CDO?

You can, but not with CDO - OOM should be fine (Attachment.SaveAsFile)
BTW, .MSG attachments are different from the embedded messages - .MSG
attachment is just a regular attachment with happens to contain an MSG
file,
embedded message is an attachment of a special kind.
OLE attachments (embedded objects in RTF messages; plain text or HTML
can
never have those) are off limits.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You might find the code sample at
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=523 useful. It shows how to
use Redemption to create an Outlook item from a .msg file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers