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determine if a message was sent or closed outlook

in c # I create a message m before sending it I show the user who can edit it and send or close it. How can I track the user closed this message or sent.
OutLookRef.Application oApp;
oApp = new OutLookRef.Application();
OutLookRef.MailItem mail = oApp.CreateItem(OutLookRef.OlItemType.olMailItem);
var pInspector = mail.GetInspector;
mail.Recipients.Add(address);
mail.Subject = subject;
mail.HTMLBody = body;
mail.Display();
All I got was to pause the code while this window is open
while (pInspector.CurrentItem is OutLookRef.MailItem)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
}
also after sending, I would like to save this message to a disk, let's say mail.msg

It seems you are interested in the following properties:
MailItem.SendUsingAccount returns an Account object that represents the account under which the MailItem is to be sent.
MailItem.SentOnBehalfOfName returns a string indicating the display name for the intended sender of the mail message.
Namespace.CurrentUser returns the display name of the currently logged-on user as a Recipient object.
also after sending, I would like to save this message to a disk, let's say mail.msg
You may hook up to the ItemAdd event of the Items class which belongs to the Sent Items folder where you can save the item on the disk. The MailItem.SaveAs method saves the Microsoft Outlook item to the specified path and in the format of the specified file type. If the file type is not specified, the MSG format (.msg) is used.

Get sub messages from Outlook .msg files

I need to parse a few .msg files which have trail mails. Is there any way to get the sub messages and identify the initiated and the responded emails.
I do not want to use any third party tools. I am allowed to use the Outlook interop.
Below is the code that I have used to read the msg file.I am able to get the Body ,HTMLBody and other details.But I actually need all the trailing messages.
outlook._Application app = null;
outlook.MailItem item = null;
outlook.NameSpace session = null;
try
{
app = new outlook.Application();
session = app.Session;
item = session.OpenSharedItem(file) as outlook.MailItem;
}
catch(Exception ex)
{ }

If you are limited to OOM only, the only way to do that is to save each embedded message attachment as an MSG file (Attachment.SaveAsFile), then open it using Namespace.OpenSharedItem.
If using Redemption (I am its author) is an option, an MSG file can be opened using RDOSession.GetMessageFromMsgFile (similar to Namespace.OpenSharedItem in OOM), and the embedded message attachment can be accessed using the RDOAttachment.EmbeddedMsg property (returns RDOMail object) - no need to save the attachment first.

Copying mail body to new mail in outlook by coding in c#

In Outlook 2013, I want the content of the mail body in a new mail programmatically.
Below is my code:
void Inspectors_NewInspector(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Inspector Inspector)
{
Outlook.MailItem mailItem = Inspector.CurrentItem as Outlook.MailItem;
Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.Explorer oExplorer = oApp.ActiveExplorer();
Outlook.Selection oSelection = oExplorer.Selection;
foreach (object item in oSelection)
{
Outlook.MailItem mi = (Outlook.MailItem)item;
mailItem.HTMLBody = mi.HTMLBody;
}
}
Everything works fine, but the image present in the original mail is not displayed. Instead it shows something like cid:image002.png.
Not sure what is the reason.
Also I want to give it to the client, so I can't save mail content locally.

If you see cid:image002.png statements in the HTML markup of the message body you need to attach embedded items to new emails as well.
The basic principle of adding an embedded image is to attach the image to the item and then using the HTMLBody to write HTML to add the attachment cid as a reference in the HTML.
Attachment attachment = newMail.Attachments.Add(
#"E:\Pictures\image001.jpg"
, OlAttachmentType.olEmbeddeditem
, null
, "Some image display name"
);
string imageCid = "image001.jpg#123";
attachment.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty(
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001E"
, imageCid
);
newMail.HTMLBody = String.Format(
"<body><img src=\"cid:{0}\"></body>"
, imageCid
);
Be aware, you will need to save the file on disk and the re-attach it to the new email. The Add method of the Attachment class accepts a file (represented by the full file system path with a file name) or an Outlook item that constitutes the attachment.
Also I'd recommend avoiding the foreach loop in the code with OOM objects. Use the for loop instead. It allows to release underlying COM objects instantly. Use System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject to release an Outlook object when you have finished using it. Then set a variable to Nothing in Visual Basic (null in C#) to release the reference to the object. You can read more about that in the Systematically Releasing Objects article.

As i understand you want to copy the attachments from existing mailitem to new one... Then you can try this
foreach( var x in mailItem.Attachments)
{
mi.Attachments.Add(x);
}

Is it possible to set the position of an Attachment in a MailItem?

I'm trying to position an attachment in an RTF mail of Outlook 2007 created via COM:
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
// ...
private static void CreateMailWithAttachment()
{
Outlook.Application ol = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.MailItem mail = (Outlook.MailItem) ol.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);
mail.BodyFormat = Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatRichText;
mail.Subject = "Important e-mail";
mail.Body = "1234567890 1234567890 1234567890";
mail.Attachments.Add(#"c:\myfile.txt", Outlook.OlAttachmentType.olByValue, 2);
mail.Display();
}
The documentation of Attachments.Add does not explicitly say what happens when a value between 2 and the length of the mail is used:
This parameter applies only to e-mail messages using Microsoft Outlook Rich Text format: it is the position where the attachment should be placed within the body text of the message. A value of 1 for the Position parameter specifies that the attachment should be positioned at the beginning of the message body. A value 'n' greater than the number of characters in the body of the e-mail item specifies that the attachment should be placed at the end. A value of 0 makes the attachment hidden.
I'm seeing the following behavior:
0: Works as described, attachment is hidden.
1: Does not work as described, attachment is at the end of the body.
> 1: Attachment is at the end of the body.
It's the same when starting Outlook with command line arguments /noextensions or /safe.
Is it possible to position an attachment in the middle of a mail? Am I missing something?

I guess it's KB967677, although I'm pretty sure the patch is installed. It works perfectly with Outlook 2003.
Sorry for bothering.

Display options for email

I am displaing one particular mail message. I wonder if i can change display preferences. I want to change options to display pictures embedded in mail body. I access to mail in that way:
Outlook.Application outLookApp = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.Inspector inspector = outLookApp.ActiveInspector();
Outlook.NameSpace nameSpace = outLookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
Outlook.MAPIFolder inbox = nameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
Outlook.MailItem item = inbox.Items[1];
item.Display();

There might be a workaround to create something you are talking about with this email display. Like create your own displayer of the MailItem. But there is no way that I can find to turn it on and off. You can dig here to find out deeper features of the Outlook libraries. You might try to find the settings here and see if they give a way to change them.