I checked the MS Outlook (office 365, 2013 and 2010) for options to configure UTF-8 character encoding.
I found the options for out going email in: File > Options > Advanced > International Options.
BUT
I am not able to find the option to configure of incoming emails. Does anybody have any idea about this?
You can change the encoding of a particular email from Actions (Move menu) > Other Actions > Encoding > More
Incoming messages cannot be changed - it is up to the sender to chose a particular encoding. Outlook parses the incoming MIME messages into multiple MAPI properties.
What is it exactly that you are trying to solve? Why would you want to do anything with incoming messages?
Related
I am looking for a way to get structured email headers from Outlook and process them in Power Automate Desktop.
Assumptions
You can retrieve email headers in Outlook by using the following URL
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-internet-message-headers-in-outlook-cd039382-dc6e-4264-ac74-c048563d212c
The Challenge
The mail headers obtained from the client application Outlook are in text format and very difficult to handle.
Constraints
We assume that we are parsing mail headers from an attached .msg file.
It is not possible to retrieve mail headers in json format using the Graph API.
Fortunately, Power Automate Desktop supports execution of VB script, JavaScript, Powershell, and DOS commands. It may be possible to take advantage of these to turn text into Json format, etc.
If you can use Outlook Object Model in VBS, you can retrieve MIME headers from a received message by reading the PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS MAPI property using MailItem.PropertyAccessor.GetProperty("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x007D001F")
I've a big problem because some eml file that are imported in the customer repository (IBM ECM) and retrieve from IBM Content Navigator.
This client demand the opening of this kind of file to the operating system and therefore to MS Outlook.
It occurs only for some of the emails and, by exporting the email and opening it with a test editor, it becomes clear that the problem is due to a series of null characters placed as the last line of the body of the email (I've attached a screenshoot).
Is there a way to allow Outlook to view these emails correctly?
Thinderbird for example also opens these emails without problems but the custome cant use this client, only MS Outlook is permitted.
Thank you in advance
email body
Is it possible to download email body and attachments in a file in .MSG format in Outlook Web? I am working on an Outlook 365 Web addin and I require to download entire message along with attachments in .MSG format?
Edit: Is there any open source library in .NET which does the same?
Thanks,
I have to do the same thing, but since the company I'm writting the addin for is using a version of Windows/MSOffice where the webview that the addin runs inside is handled by a IE11 process, I got OOM-error when trying to download an attachment bigger than 7MB via a EWS request (using the ews-javascript-api).
Now I'm using a IIS server to which I send the eschangeToken and EmailId and handle the download/upload of the email there via EWS-managed-api from MS.
Downloading the email as .MSG is not possible AFAIK, I download them by getting the MIME-content of the email and saving it as an .EML file.
Here MS provides some examples on how to use the ews-managed-api.
EWS cannot convert to MSG. You can try to save in the Fast Transfer Stream format using the ExportItems EWS operation (which, just like the MSG format, preserves most properties). The EML format, on the other hand, will not preserve MAPI specific properties. The FTS data can then be converted (without any loss of fidelity) to the MSG format using Redemption (I am its author - RDOSession.CreateMessageFromMsgFile / RDOMail.Import(..., olFTS) / RDOMail.Save), but since Redemption is a native COM library, that code would have to run on your server, not inside the browser.
RDOSession session = new RDOSession();
RDOMail msg = session.CreateMessageFromMsgFile(#"c:\temp\test.msg");
msg.Import(#"c:\temp\test.fts", rdoSaveAsType.olFTS);
msg.Save();
We are trying to save attachments selected by the user using Redemption but stumbled on filename escaping inconsistency between VSTO and Redemption. What we do:
By attachment context menu save attachmentSelection[1] index and filename to the db and also message entryId and storeId.
After a while (maybe even after Outlook restart) we need to save this attachment to file. To do this, we get that e-mail with Redemption by id, get attachment by index (rdoMail.Attachments[index]) and also ensure that filename match, since according to this:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.interop.outlook.attachment.index?view=outlook-pia#Microsoft_Office_Interop_Outlook_Attachment_Index
index property is valid only during the current session. Although it is not clear what they mean. Can it change if the e-mail is saved and sent already? Or received?
For reply e-mail VSTO Attachment.Filename is "RE Test.msg" and RDOAttachment.Filename is "RE_ Test.msg" (this is msg attachment of another e-mail).
So, the questions are:
why it is different and is it documented somewhere? Can we, for example, replace _ with string.Empty for Redemption filenames or there can be other cases?
Or maybe there is a way to get RDOAttachment from Outlook Attachment object somehow?
Can we rely on that Redemption attachment index is the same as Outlook one?
Sounds like you are dealing with an embedded message attachment - unlike regular by-value attachments that expose the PR_ATTACH_LONG_FILENAME MAPI property, there is no intrinsic file name property for the embedded attachments. Both OOM and Redemption generate that property from the the embedded message subject, whcih you cam access through RDOAttachment.EmbeddedMsg.Subject. OOM does not expose embedded message attachments at all.
Yes, use RDOSession.GetRDOObjectFromOUtlookObject method
The index usually does not change, but it might. MAPI itself uses PR_ATTACH_NUM to open the attachment using IMessage::OpenAttach, but it can be different based on how the message was opened - a fake IMessage returned from MailItem.MAPIOBJECT can have a different value of PR_ATTACH_NUM from the native message returned by the store provider.
I am trying to send a report from Exchange Management Shell Exchange 2007. When I send this report to Outlook the email is formatting as expected, but when I send the email to Lotus it's losing the HTML formatting such as CSS, headings, tables and borders. The data is preserved but the formatting is incorrect.
On the other hand, when I send the message using Send-MailMessage in Exchange 2010 everything is fine even when I send it to a Lotus Notes user.
Why does this difference occur?
You're going to have to go to the Notes client, and view the MIME source of both messages and compare them using a good diff program. If one is displaying correctly, and the other is not, there will be differences, and finding out why and those differences occur should give you some clue about what is happening to break the message.
(The above is assuming that the recipient is set up to receive the message in his mailbox in MIME format. If, in fact, the user has been set up to receive messages converted to Notes rich text format, then you would have to go to the Domino server instead of the Notes client, and use the SMTPSaveImportErors setting to capture the MIME source for the two messages.)