Message headers

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Leon Mayne

Hi all,
I'm trying to get the message headers and body from an email. I am able to
get the message body using:

Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
For x = 1 To oOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count
msgBody = oOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(x).Body
Next

Which works fine, but I can't seem to find a way to get the headers in the
same fashion (from within the loop above).

Can anyone help?
 
Leon Mayne said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to get the message headers and body from an email.
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OK, I've managed to find out how to do this now, but can anyone tell me how
to find out what format an email is in (Plain text / HTML)? I am writing the
code using ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(x) so I can't use e.g:
If (oInspector.EditorType = olEditorHTML) Then
 
EditorType is indeed the correct approach. You can use the MailItem.GetInspector method to return an Inspector.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
EditorType is indeed the correct approach. You can use the
MailItem.GetInspector method to return an Inspector.

But I thought you needed to have the message opened to use an inspector? I
want to do it from the message list (explorer)
 
No. GetInspector returns an undisplayed Inspector object if you use it on an item that is not open.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue Mosher said:
No. GetInspector returns an undisplayed Inspector object if you use it on
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an item that is not open.

It's OK, I've solved my own problem again!!
I retrieved the message body as HTML and then looped through to see if I
could find Outlook's 'Converted from plain text' message:

msgBody = oOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(x).HTMLBody
msgLines = Split(msgBody, vbCrLf)
For Each msgLine In msgLines
If Replace(msgLine, "<!-- Converted from text/plain format -->",
"") _
<> msgLine Then
' Message has been converted, so we change it back to
Plain text
msgBody = oOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(x).Body
Exit For
End If
Next

Yes I know it's very untidy code, but hey, it works!
 
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