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Marius Seglsten
I have a big problem regarding editing of MSG-files.
This is what I do:
1. Open a MSG-file from Windows Explorer
2. Add an attachment (i.e a Word-document) to the email.
3. Save and close the email.
When I re-open the MSG-file the attachment is missing! Instead Outlook has
created a copy of the email in my inbox(!), and that copy contains the
attachment.
This has been tested with different mail-formats (HTML, Plain Text and RTF),
and with Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003 with the same result.
Can anyone explain this behavior? I would call this a bug in Outlook, since
changes you believe you are making to a MSG-file are just being ignored. You
don't even get a warning...
Please help me figure out a way of being able to edit a MSG file without
this behavior!
Thanks!
Marius Seglsten
Vega SMB AS
Further info:
-If I just open the msg-file and edit it's body or subject, the saving works
fine, without a copy of the email in my inbox.
-The copy of the item appears in my inbox at the moment that the attachment
is added.
This is what I do:
1. Open a MSG-file from Windows Explorer
2. Add an attachment (i.e a Word-document) to the email.
3. Save and close the email.
When I re-open the MSG-file the attachment is missing! Instead Outlook has
created a copy of the email in my inbox(!), and that copy contains the
attachment.
This has been tested with different mail-formats (HTML, Plain Text and RTF),
and with Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003 with the same result.
Can anyone explain this behavior? I would call this a bug in Outlook, since
changes you believe you are making to a MSG-file are just being ignored. You
don't even get a warning...
Please help me figure out a way of being able to edit a MSG file without
this behavior!
Thanks!
Marius Seglsten
Vega SMB AS
Further info:
-If I just open the msg-file and edit it's body or subject, the saving works
fine, without a copy of the email in my inbox.
-The copy of the item appears in my inbox at the moment that the attachment
is added.