Outlook - How to determine mail language

[Juvigy]

I have a PST which is an archive from an General Mailbox. Inside there are different types of mails in different languages:

Some are HTML other TEXT , some in English other in French and German. I would like to be able to programatically tell in which language is the mail. Any idea how this can be done?

PS. I am fairly familiar with the outlook UDFs and MSDN Outlook object reference.

[Myicq]

As I see it, not really a question related to AutoIT specifically but for programming in general. And a hard one too, as "language" is a soft parameter which is hard to analyze.

This page has some suggestions. One of them being detectlanguage.com - the API seems to be free to use.

For no API use, perhaps you have distinct words you can search for ?

Not much of a solution, just some general pointers. Hope they're helpful to you.

[Juvigy]

The problem is i will need 20 000 detections. The free version is only 5k per day.

[water]

Give function _OL_MailHeaderget a try.

In the example I have run here I get

...

"Accept-Language: de-DE, de-AT, en-US"

"Content-language: de-DE"

...

for a mail written in german.

[Juvigy]

Doesnt work for most of my mails - If there is some english - for example in the signiture it says it is English and not Deutch.

[water]

Looks like that is the only automated information Outlook provides. But how would you determine the language of a mixed mail?

[Juvigy]

I am thinking of getting the mail body only and checking 10% of the words against a dictionary or something.

I am still thinking about it.