Outlook Storage Example not finding body text in .MSG

Question

I am using the excellent example at CodeProject to read .MSG files however many are coming back with no body text. I have stepped into the code and I believe this is because the property key __substg1.0_1000 of the Outlook message does not exist (GetMapiPropertyFromStreamOrStorage() method of Outlook Storage) in the message properties.

Do I need to look for an alternate property key to read the message body from these emails and if so what is it? Is there another way around this?

Answer 1

I'm not near a computer, well, I guess my phone is sort of a computer, but are you sure they're emails? Calendar and contact items generally won't have that property.

PidTagBody, PidTagHtmlBody, and PidTagRtfBody(?) are all properties that can contain body information. However, if there is an HTML or rtf body, you will almost always have PidTagBody property populated.

You can check the PidTagMessageClass property to determine if its an email, note, contact, etc. An email will have the value "IPM.Note". You'll have to look up the property ids for these names yourself, at least until I can get near a computer.