Use an Outlook message file (msg) as a template

Question

I wonder if it's possible with the .net framework or Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook to load an email message (*.msg), do a search and replace and send it from C#.

It's all happening on the server so Outlook cannot be installed.

What I've tried

• the Redemption library but somehow it loses the images inlined in the template and can't figure out to remedy this

• Using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook

      Application objOutlook = new Application();
      objOutlook.CreateItemFromTemplate("c:\temp\..",)
  

But it expects as it second parameter an outlook folder, I can't give it a file path where it will save to

I'm thinking to switch to regular txt files instead of C# but maybe someone did this already

Update 1

This is the redemption code I tried. The problem is that the formatting and image (of a signature is not preserved)

using Interop.Redemption;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Replace(@"mailnonunicode.msg");
            Replace(@"mailunicode.msg");
            Replace(@"mailtemplate.oft");
        }

        static void Replace(string cTestharnessKmailMsg)
        {
            RDOSession rdoSession = new RDOSession();
            RDOMail messageFromMsgFile = rdoSession.GetMessageFromMsgFile(cTestharnessKmailMsg);

            messageFromMsgFile.Body = messageFromMsgFile.Body.Replace("abc",
                                                                      "xyz");
            messageFromMsgFile.Save();
        }
    }
}

Update 2 / Solution

If you want to preserve the formatting, you need to work with HTMLBody or RTFBody properties, not with the plain text Body.

Answer 1

What is your existing Redemption code?

If the message needs to be sent, it must be created in one of the Outlook folders - a standalone MSG file cannot be sent.