Reading outlook .msg files

[Graham F French]

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files as
they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an interpretation
method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[Brian Henry]

their in binary format not text format, to read binary format you need to
know the data structure of the file.
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files as they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an interpretation
method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[Graham F French]

It is from outlook, so whatever that binary format is.

Hope this helps.

Graham
"Brian Henry" <br******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:ey****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

their in binary format not text format, to read binary format you need to
know the data structure of the file.
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files

as

they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Graham,
The .msg format is not documented.

The "easiest" way to read it would be to have the App that defines the
format read it, in this case Outlook.

The following site provides a plethora of information on using Outlook from
..NET.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files as they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an interpretation
method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[CJ Taylor]

You've never worked with binary/random access file have you?
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:eC****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

It is from outlook, so whatever that binary format is.

Hope this helps.

Graham
"Brian Henry" <br******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:ey****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

their in binary format not text format, to read binary format you need to

know the data structure of the file.
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg

files

as

they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[CJ Taylor]

I don't know if its on here... but a link for understanding (and the
formats) of many popular binary file types.

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=ALLFILES

CJ
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:eC****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

It is from outlook, so whatever that binary format is.

Hope this helps.

Graham
"Brian Henry" <br******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:ey****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

their in binary format not text format, to read binary format you need to

know the data structure of the file.
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg

files

as

they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[Graham F French]

Jay,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I know that it can be done in VB6.

Cheers

Graham

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message
news:uW**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Graham,
The .msg format is not documented.

The "easiest" way to read it would be to have the App that defines the
format read it, in this case Outlook.

The following site provides a plethora of information on using Outlook from .NET.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files

as

they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[Graham F French]

CJ,

You are dead right, I have never worked with binary.

I still consider myself as a newbie, text files are no problem, binary.....
not a chance!!

The site that you showed me has not got the msg format.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Graham

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...

I don't know if its on here... but a link for understanding (and the
formats) of many popular binary file types.

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=ALLFILES

CJ
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:eC****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

It is from outlook, so whatever that binary format is.

Hope this helps.

Graham
"Brian Henry" <br******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:ey****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

their in binary format not text format, to read binary format you need to know the data structure of the file.
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg

files

as
> they seem to be in a proprietry format.
>
> Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation

> method?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graham
>
> Graham F French mcse
>
>

[CJ Taylor]

Hmm, sorry, didn't look through it enough... Sorry about that.. still
searching for a source of it.. but personally, I would use the Outlook
interop.
-CJ
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:OZ****************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

CJ,

You are dead right, I have never worked with binary.

I still consider myself as a newbie, text files are no problem, binary..... not a chance!!

The site that you showed me has not got the msg format.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Graham

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...

I don't know if its on here... but a link for understanding (and the
formats) of many popular binary file types.

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=ALLFILES

CJ
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:eC****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

It is from outlook, so whatever that binary format is.

Hope this helps.

Graham
"Brian Henry" <br******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:ey****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> their in binary format not text format, to read binary format you need

to

> know the data structure of the file.
>
>
> "Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in

msg files
> as
> > they seem to be in a proprietry format.
> >
> > Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an
interpretation
> > method?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Graham
> >
> > Graham F French mcse
> >
> >
>
>

[Graham F French]

The problem is the client. Outlook will not be installed.

The msg files are saved to a shared server drive and my application needs to
read in the msg files.

Cheers

Graham

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...

Hmm, sorry, didn't look through it enough... Sorry about that.. still
searching for a source of it.. but personally, I would use the Outlook
interop.
-CJ
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:OZ****************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

CJ,

You are dead right, I have never worked with binary.

I still consider myself as a newbie, text files are no problem,

binary.....

not a chance!!

The site that you showed me has not got the msg format.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Graham

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...

I don't know if its on here... but a link for understanding (and the
formats) of many popular binary file types.

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=ALLFILES

CJ
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:eC****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> It is from outlook, so whatever that binary format is.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Graham
>
>
> "Brian Henry" <br******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:ey****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > their in binary format not text format, to read binary format you need to
> > know the data structure of the file.
> >
> >
> > "Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg > files
> > as
> > > they seem to be in a proprietry format.
> > >
> > > Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an
> interpretation
> > > method?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Graham
> > >
> > > Graham F French mcse
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

[Sueffel]

Not to be a noot, but I think you're on the wrong track. .msg files ARE
NOT MS Outlook files, but e-mail messages that are used by a thousand or so
clients. There is both an ISO and RFC spec on this. Check out .msg email
file layouts, that may lead to some clues, and remember, MS doesn't have the
market on everything, even though they'd like to :)

HTH
Sueffel
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[Sueffel]

And actually, I posted before I thought bout it more, email messages are
required to be plain-text unless they are encrypted. If they are encrypted
by Outlook for whatever reason, you're pretty hosed. Ofcourse, not 100%
sure what Outlook may be doing to this file, but it sure is really fubared,
and needs to be avoided LOL
It looks to be a non-stander, IE fubared, db type of format, let me see
what I can dig up for ya...

Sueffel

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 2/6/2004

[Cor]

Hi Graham,

I got this links from Jay B. we work in a team like that.

You can read them and Jay B has a lot of more answers.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...vr_cdo_top.asp
The four CDOs are (in chronological order):

- CDO.DLL : CDO version 1.2.1
- CDONTS.DLL : CDO version 1.2.1 for Windows NT Server (not the same as CDO
version 1.2.1!)
- CDOSYS.DLL : CDO for Windows 2000
- CDOEX.DLL : CDO for Exchange 2000 Server

And the last is probably what you need.

Look at the outlook and exchange part in it, but I think in this case take
first the Exchange part, because you have to read the message storage from
that server for what you want I thouhgt.

Cor

[Brian Henry]

Binary files are a defined data structure. you have to know how to read in
the structures in teh correct data type to be able to convery from binary to
something you can use, I'd suggest reading up on binary format files first
then search for a binary file format document on outlook second..
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:uD*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Jay,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I know that it can be done in VB6.

Cheers

Graham

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message
news:uW**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Graham,
The .msg format is not documented.

The "easiest" way to read it would be to have the App that defines the
format read it, in this case Outlook.

The following site provides a plethora of information on using Outlook

from

.NET.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files

as

they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[CJ Taylor]

Yeah, I can't find a thing on the data structure of a msg file anywhere...

good luck,
CJ
"Brian Henry" <br******@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Binary files are a defined data structure. you have to know how to read in
the structures in teh correct data type to be able to convery from binary to something you can use, I'd suggest reading up on binary format files first
then search for a binary file format document on outlook second..
"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:uD*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Jay,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I know that it can be done in VB6.

Cheers

Graham

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message news:uW**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Graham,
The .msg format is not documented.

The "easiest" way to read it would be to have the App that defines the
format read it, in this case Outlook.

The following site provides a plethora of information on using Outlook

from

.NET.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg

files

as
> they seem to be in a proprietry format.
>
> Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation

> method?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graham
>
> Graham F French mcse
>
>

[Sueffel]

"Sueffel" <so*****@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:uR****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

And actually, I posted before I thought bout it more, email messages are required to be plain-text unless they are encrypted. If they are encrypted by Outlook for whatever reason, you're pretty hosed. Ofcourse, not 100%
sure what Outlook may be doing to this file, but it sure is really fubared, and needs to be avoided LOL
It looks to be a non-stander, IE fubared, db type of format, let me see what I can dig up for ya...

Sueffel

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 2/6/2004

Well damn,MS strikes again with propritary format! I've seen .msg files
many time on linux email servers, but it seems that this is something MS has
tried to say, "Hey, this is ours and there's nothing you can do about it".
That sucks, I will look somemore thoguh unless those links jay giave are the
answer.

Sueffel
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[Graham F French]

Hi,

I have yet to find some info on this, anything you can get would be
appreciated!

Thanks

Graham

"Sueffel" <so*****@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

"Sueffel" <so*****@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:uR****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

And actually, I posted before I thought bout it more, email messages are

required to be plain-text unless they are encrypted. If they are

encrypted

by Outlook for whatever reason, you're pretty hosed. Ofcourse, not 100%
sure what Outlook may be doing to this file, but it sure is really

fubared,

and needs to be avoided LOL
It looks to be a non-stander, IE fubared, db type of format, let me

see

what I can dig up for ya...

Sueffel

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 2/6/2004

Well damn,MS strikes again with propritary format! I've seen .msg files
many time on linux email servers, but it seems that this is something MS

has tried to say, "Hey, this is ours and there's nothing you can do about it".
That sucks, I will look somemore thoguh unless those links jay giave are the answer.

Sueffel
---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 2/6/2004

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Graham,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application. I'm Sorry, which part of "not documented" do you not understand? :-|
I know that it can be done in VB6.
If you know how to do it in VB6, then you *should* know how to do it in
VB.NET.

Can you post the VB6 code you are using? The code should largely translate
into VB.NET, nothing else, create a simple VB6 project that uses the code,
then use the Upgrade Wizard in VB.NET to open the project.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:uD*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... Jay,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I know that it can be done in VB6.

Cheers

Graham

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message
news:uW**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Graham,
The .msg format is not documented.

The "easiest" way to read it would be to have the App that defines the
format read it, in this case Outlook.

The following site provides a plethora of information on using Outlook

from

.NET.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files

as

they seem to be in a proprietry format.

Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation method?

Thanks

Graham

Graham F French mcse

[Graham F French]

Hi Jay,

I don't know vb6 at all. It sounds strange, but I stared off with vbscript!
Then I moved to asp.net.

I could post the vb6 code that reads the file in, as it doesn't make much
sense to me.

Regards

Graham
"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message
news:er**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Graham,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I'm Sorry, which part of "not documented" do you not understand? :-|

I know that it can be done in VB6.

If you know how to do it in VB6, then you *should* know how to do it in
VB.NET.

Can you post the VB6 code you are using? The code should largely translate
into VB.NET, nothing else, create a simple VB6 project that uses the code,
then use the Upgrade Wizard in VB.NET to open the project.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:uD*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Jay,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I know that it can be done in VB6.

Cheers

Graham

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message news:uW**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Graham,
The .msg format is not documented.

The "easiest" way to read it would be to have the App that defines the
format read it, in this case Outlook.

The following site provides a plethora of information on using Outlook

from

.NET.

http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg

files

as
> they seem to be in a proprietry format.
>
> Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an

interpretation

> method?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graham
>
> Graham F French mcse
>
>

[Eduardo A. Morcillo [MS MVP VB]]

Outlook uses the OLE structured storage file format to write the .msg files.
To read these files you have to use the OLE api. There's a set of VB.NET
classes that wraps this API in my site:

Once you download the classes you can use this code to read the message
body:

' Open the message file
Dim msg As New Storage("test.msg")

' Get the message body stream
Dim stream As OleStorage.Stream = msg.OpenStream("__substg1.0_80050102")
Dim reader As New IO.StreamReader(stream)

' Show the message body
MsgBox(reader.ReadToEnd)

' Close the stream
reader.Close()
stream.Close()

' Close the message file
msg.Close()

The following are the streams I know:

__substg1.0_0037001E -> subject
__substg1.0_0050001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_0650001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_0760001E -> recipient's email
__substg1.0_07D0001E -> headers
__substg1.0_0C1F001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_1000001E -> message body
__substg1.0_1035001E -> message id
__substg1.0_1046001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_80050102 -> message body

--
Eduardo A. Morcillo [MS MVP VB]
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo

[CJ Taylor]

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:e5*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hi Jay,

I don't know vb6 at all. It sounds strange, but I stared off with vbscript! Then I moved to asp.net.

If you know VBScript, Vb6 wouldn't be a challenge, since vbscript could be
considered a subset of VB6...
I could post the vb6 code that reads the file in, as it doesn't make much
sense to me.

suspicious...
Regards

Graham
"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message
news:er**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Graham,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I'm Sorry, which part of "not documented" do you not understand? :-|

I know that it can be done in VB6.

If you know how to do it in VB6, then you *should* know how to do it in
VB.NET.

Can you post the VB6 code you are using? The code should largely translate

into VB.NET, nothing else, create a simple VB6 project that uses the code, then use the Upgrade Wizard in VB.NET to open the project.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
news:uD*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Jay,

Sorry, I do need to know how to read this file format directly into my
application.

I know that it can be done in VB6.

Cheers

Graham

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in

message news:uW**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Graham,
> The .msg format is not documented.
>
> The "easiest" way to read it would be to have the App that defines the > format read it, in this case Outlook.
>
> The following site provides a plethora of information on using Outlook from
> .NET.
>
> http://www.microeye.com/resources/res_outlookvsnet.htm
>
> Hope this helps
> Jay
>
> "Graham F French" <gr***********@satosoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can read text files into my application, but I cannot read in msg files
> as
> > they seem to be in a proprietry format.
> >
> > Is there anyway of converting it on the fly or is there an
interpretation
> > method?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Graham
> >
> > Graham F French mcse
> >
> >
>
>

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Eduardo,
Based on the numbers you are showing, it appears that each MAPI Property is
stored as a separate Stream. Interesting!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...properties.asp

__substg1.0_0037001E -> subject http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pr_subject.asp

Of course the .msg format itself is not not documented by MS that I know of,
it may change use at your own risk. For example, the introduction of Unicode
and Contact items and such...

Thanks for the info!

Hope this helps
Jay

"Eduardo A. Morcillo [MS MVP VB]" <emorcillo_at_mvps.org> wrote in message
news:O0**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Outlook uses the OLE structured storage file format to write the .msg files. To read these files you have to use the OLE api. There's a set of VB.NET
classes that wraps this API in my site:

Once you download the classes you can use this code to read the message
body:

' Open the message file
Dim msg As New Storage("test.msg")

' Get the message body stream
Dim stream As OleStorage.Stream = msg.OpenStream("__substg1.0_80050102")
Dim reader As New IO.StreamReader(stream)

' Show the message body
MsgBox(reader.ReadToEnd)

' Close the stream
reader.Close()
stream.Close()

' Close the message file
msg.Close()

The following are the streams I know:

__substg1.0_0037001E -> subject
__substg1.0_0050001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_0650001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_0760001E -> recipient's email
__substg1.0_07D0001E -> headers
__substg1.0_0C1F001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_1000001E -> message body
__substg1.0_1035001E -> message id
__substg1.0_1046001E -> sender's email
__substg1.0_80050102 -> message body

--
Eduardo A. Morcillo [MS MVP VB]
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo

[Eduardo A. Morcillo [MS MVP VB]]

> Based on the numbers you are showing, it appears that each MAPI

Property is stored as a separate Stream. Interesting!

You are right, and that makes it easier.

--
Eduardo A. Morcillo [MS MVP VB]
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo

[MSG.Expert]

MSG Files:

Priasoft has several MSG related products. http://www.priasoft.com

In particular, they have a MSG file parsing library that gives developers access to all the properties of a .msg file, without outlook.

They also have an export library that works with the MSG library for exporting msg files to other formats, like PDF, TIF, and HTML.

For PST files, they have a couple of command line tools that allow extraction of messages to MSG, again without requiring outlook, and it supports both ANSI and UNICODE pst files. There is also the reverse, a MSG to PST utility.

They also have a viewer product that looks very similar to outlook 2003 with regards to the User Interface. The viewer can view, search, print, and export msg files.

Lastly, they just release a free ViewOnly viewer here: http://www.priasoft.com/msgview.exe


Regards,
the MSG Guru, Eriq VanBibber