Re: Where happens to OLE attachments?

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From: Dmitry Streblechenko \(MVP\) (dmitry_at_dimastr.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:27:22 -0700

RTF only stores the placeholders where the actual data from the OLE storage
(attachments) wil be placed when the message body is displayed. Did you try
to save in the MSG format? There is no easy way to convert to HTML as the
COM server responsisble for the embedded OLE object would have to render the
object as a bitmap, then you'd need to convert RTF to HTML, etc. Note that
even Outlook will not let you save an RTF message in the HTML format.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"Josh Orfanakis" <gorfanakis@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:gorfanakis-443BE5.19060801062004@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
> I have several messages with attachments of type OL::olOLE. I am trying
> to generate a customized RTF version of these messages. I have used
> Redemption RTFBody to get the body of the message but the ole items are
> gone.
>
> As attachments they don't appear to be able to be saved.
>
> So what can I do to preserve these items embedded in this message?
>
> Does the PR_RTF_COMPRESSED property contain the attachments somehow?
>
> Can these types of attachments appear in HTML formatted messages?
>
> TIA
> JO
> gorfanakis@comcast.net

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