Accessing .msg files without Outlook installed on PC
Those are proprietary formats - you'll need to dive in and figure out how to
read the contents.
I think I remember they're based on the OLE compound file implementation -
you can use the Doc Viewer that ships with the PSDK to verify that. After
that it's just a matter of writing code to pull the streams from the file
and interpret them.
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> Hi,
> A colleague of mine needs an help(tech). He is using a
> VB Application to read the mail messages, which are
> stored in .msg or .eml format in the hard disk. The PC
> doesnot have any email software viz., outlook or
> netscape messenger but the email files are stored in
> the hard disk. He wants to read the messages and its
> properties. He tried using MAPI but was not
> successful, he used CDO and was succesful in reading
> only .eml files but he is not able to read .msg
> files(email files). I feel CDO doesnot recognize .msg
> files, could some of the experts who have worked on
> MAPI or CDO help me in this...
> Thanks,
> Vinu
