OutlookEX UDF - Help & Support (III)

[water]

The possible error codes are documented in the header of the respective function in the UDF - or in the help file that comes with the download.

[Skysnake]

Got it.

Tips on RTF mail format?

Skysnake

[water]

RTF mail format: Works as Text or HTML format. I prefer HTML because it is much easier to format the mail body.

[Skysnake]

Is it possible to provide an example of using an RTF body?

I do this for HTML and it works.  RTF does not work.

$hFileOpen = FileOpen("C:\wwweb\backgroundColors\Background_Text_Colors.rtf")
    $HTMLBody = FileRead($hFileOpen)
    FileClose($hFileOpen)

$olFormatRichText

So I read the file content and place that into the email request.  $olFormatHTML for HTML file works as expected.  $olFormatRichText for RTF does not.  I see the raw RTF tags.

Suggestions?

Skysnake

[water]

I have never used RTF. What I found on the web makes me think that it is quite complex - to say the least.

The thread is quite old but I think RTF is not supported and was introduced by "accident".

I tried and did not get a useful result:

#include <OutlookEX.au3>
Global $oOL = _OL_Open()
_OL_ErrorNotify(2)
$oItem = _OL_ItemCreate($oOL, $olMailItem, "*", "", "Subject=TestMail", "BodyFormat=" & $olFormatRichText)
$oItem.Body = "{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0 Arial;}}{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue255;}\pard\cf1\f0\fs24 Test}"
$oItem.Display()

 

[Skysnake]

Same here. Thanks.

[Skysnake]

gmail is a problem.

When I send with my Outlook client I can attach a PDF attachment is which displayed correctly in gmail.

 

However, when I attach the same PDF with the Outlook UDF the attachment gets renamed to "noname" with no extension.  When I download and open with Acrobat it works, it is obviously the correct attachment in the correct format, just the file.name gets stripped off. A formatting issue maybe?

Skysnake

[water]

Function _OL_ItemAttachmentAdd allows to specify the Displayname for an attachment. Does this help?

[water]

When you search the web for "gmail attachment noname" you get a lot of hits. Seems it is a problem with gmail

[Skysnake]

Thank you for all of this.  Perhaps in the documentation a section on "Known issues" - it reminds me of jchd's opinion on CSV format - the issues with sending email are plenty, and not really an actual standard...

Thank you very much for all of this.

Skysnake

[water]

Section has been added to the wiki

[water]

  On 9/12/2017 at 7:31 AM, Skysnake said:

Your documentation is good.  I do however have this suggestion: Make a __Example.au3 file to run first, with the basics?  Yes, I found all the examples, but the problem is, Where to start?

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I know the OutlookEX UDF has a lot of functions covering most of what Outllok is capable.
I tried to explain the concepts of the UDF in the wiki.

Where to start depends on what you try to achieve.

When I coded the UDF I created a kind of cross reference. Would this be helpful for newbies?

[Skysnake]

Very nice

The colors mean?

[water]

Green: The function on the left (e.g. ItemAttachmentAdd) can be used with the item type in the marked column (e.g. mail and task).

[Gianni]

Hi,

I'm trying to access (all) items (emails) that are stored in the root of a separate pst opened in outlook.

I get a refernce to that pst by using _OL_PSTAccess() with no errors
but then I fail on trying to get items from the above pst by using _OL_ItemFind()

here is my failing attempt:

$oOL = _OL_Open() ; Connect or start up Outlook
ConsoleWrite("Debug: Outlook Open:  " & @error & @CRLF) ; no errors

$oOtherPST = _OL_PSTAccess($oOL, 'c:\temp\Another.pst') ; Access the other pst
ConsoleWrite("Debug: Access PST:    " & @error & @TAB & @extended & @CRLF) ; no errors

$aItems = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $oOtherPST, $olMail, "", "", "", "EntryID,Subject", "", 1) ; <-- ??? how to reference $oOtherPST ??
ConsoleWrite("Debug: Item Find:     " & @error & @TAB & @extended & @CRLF) ; --> @error=4   @extended=1

please, could you show me the right way to use _OL_ItemFind() in this case?

Thanks

Edited October 10, 2017 by Chimp

[water]

Will have a look tomorrow when I return to my office.

[water]

Just tested your script here and it works as expected.
Could you please modify the _OL_ItemFind statement?

$aItems = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $oOtherPST, $olMail, "", "", "", "EntryID", "", 1)

 

[Gianni]

Hi water, Thanks for you reply

I've used the line as you posted here above (removed the "Subject" field) but I get still the same error.
P.S.
BTW If I use instead the _OL_ItemFind() function on the "main" pst recalling emails from a folder of the main folder tree on the left pane of outlook (example using something like "*\foldername" in the second parameter of the _OL_ItemFind function) , then I get items correctly.

[Gianni]

@water

... wait a moment...
I've found where is the problem
If there is an opened "reminder" popup window, the _OL_ItemFind function doesn't works on other pst, while it works instead on the main pst.
.. strange Behaviour, but seems that is like this. Well, thanks a lot anyway water for your help,

I have now though a new question:
How can I select subfolders from the external pst?
If I use the $oOtherPST variable in the second parameter, how can I add the string of the subfolder path??

Thanks in advance for any tips

[water]

Something like this:

#include <OutlookEX.au3>

$oOL = _OL_Open() ; Connect or start up Outlook
ConsoleWrite("Debug: Outlook Open:  " & @error & @CRLF) ; no errors

$oOtherPST = _OL_PSTAccess($oOL, 'c:\temp\Test.pst') ; Access the other pst
ConsoleWrite("Debug: Access PST:    " & @error & @TAB & @extended & @CRLF)

$aFolder = _OL_FolderAccess($oOL, StringMid($oOtherPST.FolderPath, 3) & "\Gelöschte Objekte", Default, $olMailItem)
ConsoleWrite("Debug: Folder Access:     " & @error & @TAB & @extended & @CRLF)

$aItems = _OL_ItemFind($oOL, $aFolder[1], $olMail, "", "", "", "EntryID,Subject", "", 1)
ConsoleWrite("Debug: Item Find:     " & @error & @TAB & @extended & @CRLF)

_arraydisplay($aItems)

_OL_PSTClose($oOL, $oOtherPST)