I have an Exchange Web Services component that someone wrote a few years ago and has been working un-maintained since then, until an issue arose yesterday.
We have one specific email being sent from an external contractors system to our mailboxes. It is a HTML formatted email, but when I try the following:
EmailMessage em = item as EmailMessage
ExtendedPropertyDefinition htmlBody = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(0x1013, MapiPropertyType.Binary); //PR_BODY_HTML=0x1013 ?)
em.TryGetProperty(htmlBody, out bodyHTMLBytes);
I get am getting a null response just for these specific emails. All other HTML-based emails are coming through just fine.
Are there any other ways we could be looking for a HTML body? The email renders just fine in Outlook and OWA.
Maybe is a report item (delivery, non-delivery, receipt etc)? These do not have bodies (the body is composed "on the fly" by Outlook from RTF internal message data).
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I am developing an Outlook 'on-send' add-in which loads a dialog box if the email is addressed to multiple recipients after the send button is pressed. In the dialog, the user confirms the intended recipients from a list and then presses send. The add-in then allows the send event to happen.
A problem arises if the emails are not formatted correctly; Outlook throws a ‘does not recognise email’ error after trying to send the email. The problem is that when I try to send the email again after the error, the add-in does not load. The add-in should load every time the user tries to send an email to multiple recipients.
Please see a video of this behaviour here: https://youtu.be/U1VFuy1qbHM
As you can see from the video, the email goes to my Outbox fine after the first send. However, Outlook throws an errors when I edit the email in my Outbox and try to send it again (presumably because I was using a made up email to test with). As you can see, if I then update the emails and click send, the email sends without the add-in loading again. The intended functionality of the add-in is that another dialog box should be displayed in this case.
This behaviour also occurs when you reply to an email where the recipient has their email address formatted differently. For example, 'Name Surname (name.surname#domain.com)' instead of 'Name Surname <name.surname#domain.com>'. Outlook does not seem to like this format and throws a similar error after trying to send the email. After updating the email format and clicking send, the add-in does not load again.
The error occurs in Win32.
I do not think the problem is with the Javascript. I think the add-in does not even load when I try to resend the email. Maybe the add-in is somehow holding onto the ‘True’ value of the on-send event from the previous dialog box? I have tried editing the different ‘ReadorEdit’ values in the Manifest file to try and ensure the add-in loads for all cases but it has not helped.
What can I do to ensure the add-in loads after these errors?
Thank you for your help- it is very much appreciated.
I'm working on an Outlook Add-in, using office.js, where users can send secure emails using backend service.
In compose mode, when the user sends the email, using the add-in of course, the add-in will then move the message to "Sent Items" folder using the Outlook API /message/{id}/move and everything goes OK with the exception that the message in question still being marked as "Draft" by Outlook which is really annoying and does confuse the user who just sent the email by telling him that "this message hasn't been sent"
I searched through the API to see if there is a way to mark an email as "SENT" in order to prevent Outlook from showing this RED hint but with no luck so far!
So, My Question Is: Is there any way to overcome this misleading msg by marking the email as it was sent by Outlook?
Thanks in advance.
Finally, I was able to achieve a perfect solution for this challenge.
Based on:
#BrianClink's comment
This answer (Which uses Graph API but Outlook REST API): Microsoft Graph API mail office 365: Is any option create inbox message NOT as Draft?
The approach/steps I followed to mark a mailItem as "SENT" (and not shown as 'draft') and put it in "SentItems" Folder are as follow:
First, Save the mailItem as "draft" using Office.context.mailbox.item.currentMail.saveAsync then retrieve its ID
Clone this draft mailItem properties eg: 'Sender', 'Subject', 'Body', 'ToRecipients'..etc so you get an exact copy of it.
With the newly cloned mailItem, add '[SingleValueExtendedProperties]' property with this value :
[
{
PropertyId: 'Integer 0x0E07',
Value: '1'
}
];
Serialize the new item as JSON and POST it to "sentitems" folder as follows:
xhr.open('POST', restHost + '/v2.0/me/MailFolders/sentitems/messages/');
xhr.send(clonedEmailJson);
On success, with xhr.status=201 [created], Remove the draft mailitem using a [DELETE] request
And you will end up having a new mail item created in your "sentItems" folder which appears as it was sent by Outlook :)
This was a very helpful solution to me because my users are using my add-in to send secure emails (using 3rd party API) and NOT Outlook, So, I wanted them to have the same UX/feeling as when they use Outlook.
Note:
Although the solution worked for me perfectly, it came with a price!
On slow internet connections or in case emails containing large attachments, the process can be remarkably slow, because the addin will first save the draft to the remote Exchange Server, get its ID, then duplicate it and send it again to the server, then remove the draft-ed one.
I've achieved the "conversation/thread" effect in gmail, using this code
$phpmailer->MessageID = $message_id;
and with this, in gmail all e-mails sent (with the same value in $message_id) are received in the same "conversation/thread", but this dont work in outlook, both windows 10 email app and outlook app for windows 10...
How can i achieve the same result as in gmail in outllook?
Don't re-use the same message ID for multiple messages. There are headers specifically for creating threads, and the definitive explanation for them is here. In short, add the Message-ID of the message you are replying to in a References header, and optionally also into an In-reply-to header. You can create those headers in PHPMailer using addCustomHeader().
I have a mail sniffer program running on an Inbox in Exchange Server 2010 that checks emails at certain intervals. I would like to know if it somehow is possible to programmatically check with EWS (Exchange Web Services) if an email (EmailMessage) is a meeting invite (calendar request) without loading the attachment.
I know I can check if an attachment is an Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemAttachment and then, after loading the email check if this is an Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Appointment. But this only checks if the attachment is an invite. Theoretically someone could forward an email with amongst other thing an email invite. Then the email is really not a meeting invite, just a forwarded email.
Can you know if an email is a meeting invite without loading the attachment? Should this not be possible with EWS, is there an authorative source for this?
Edit: Forwarded emails
This is outside the question, but I originally asked:
Alternatively (but not what I am hoping for), is there a way to know
if an email was forwarded so that I can handle them differently?
This has been answered here. But I still would like to get an answer for my question as this answer only helps creating a workaround for some cases.
Thanks in advance!
You can leverage the EmailMessage Message Class ItemSchema.ItemClass property to determine what type an item is. Here is a snippet to help you out...
FindItemsResults<Item> mailItems = inbox.FindItems(new ItemView(1000) { PropertySet = new PropertySet(ItemSchema.Id, ItemSchema.HasAttachments, ItemSchema.Subject, ItemSchema.ItemClass) });
foreach (EmailMessage message in messageItems)
{
if (message.ItemClass == "IPM.Schedule.Meeting.Request")
// we have a meeting request
}
Is it possible to send an e-mail using the VS2010 development server? If that's possible, can someone point me to a sample the web?
I'd like to send an e-mail to the person who register so to keep a proof that we (yes or not) received his request. The e-mail will contains a few pertinent info, such as the name, time, and son on.
EDIT
At my work, we collect data and to whoever needs as long as the ministry we work for tells as to do so. After we receive the paper form, we write an e-mail to the form sender. Until now, we use a paper form to know who needs data. I'd like to put that form online and also be able to generate an e-mail to the sender of the request. So, since I'm still developing the application, I need to test how sending the e-mail will work. That's why I'm asking if I can send an e-mail, for instance, to my Yahoo account from my laptop using VS2008 web development server.
I remember, 2 years ago, while learning HTML with DreamWeaver, we where able to send e-mail and received them in our Yahoo e-mail accounts (without any special configuration).
Thanks for helping
The web server won't make a difference. Whether you can will depend on the environment your server is in.
The simplest option is to use .NET's built-in email classes. You're probably using .NET 3.5 so that's System.Net.Mail, e.g.
MailMessage message = new MailMessage()
{
From = new MailAddress("you#youraddress", "Your Name"),
Subject = "The subject",
Body = #"Simple text body; set IsBodyHtml for HTML"
};
message.To.Add(new MailAddress("first#recipient.address", "First recipient - can add more"));
SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient("your.smtp.server");
smtpClient.Send(message);
If you don't specify an SMTP server name in the constructor it will read it from web.config.
If you don't have access to an SMTP server but do have permission to use external web services then you could use something like http://postmarkapp.com/ - I've seen other questions about them here but haven't used them myself.
Not answering straight to the question, but:
If testing the emails sent when running on a development server is the purpose, a simple SMTP stub server like smtp4dev is a good alternative?