Open msg File to get Attachment details

[chris]

Hi,

I am have trouble opening an msg file that has attachments using CDO

My attachments are not loading correctly in the object model and
instead I get attachment added to the text body which is just a garbled
mess.

What I am trying to do is use CDO to open the msg file so I can look at
the number of attachments it has, but as the attachment is not loaded
into the attachments collection the count is not available to me. I am
using the following code to load the file:

Function LoadMessageFromFile(Path As String) As Message
Dim Stm As New Stream
Stm.Open
Stm.LoadFromFile Path
Dim iMsg As New CDO.Message
Dim iDsrc As IDataSource
Set iDsrc = iMsg
iDsrc.OpenObject Stm, "_Stream"
Set LoadMessageFromFile = iMsg
End Function

If anyone can help me I would appreciate it.

TIA

Chris

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If your main concern is to get at the attachments, you can use the Outlook object model's Namespace.CreateItemFromTemplate method to create a new item that's a copy of the .msg item.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[chris]

Thanks Sue

I am currently using the outlook object model to load these files and
handle the messages, but I need to find an alternative method to check
the attachment details because the outlook object model does not seem
to work all of the time - it does most of the time but occasionally
says it has no attachments when it should - and I would like to double
check using a different method, hence using CDO to load the msg file
and see if I can extract the data that way.

any ideas?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

My only idea is that maybe there's something interesting about the attachments in the items that appear to have none -- like maybe they're blocked files.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[chris]

Do you now if it is actually possible to load the msg file into the CDO
object and retrieve the attachments??

Chris

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, I've never tried it. I've always used either Namespace.CreateItemFromTemplate or Redemption.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers