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GlennM
Does anyone know if its possible to save the HTML (source) of an
Exchange/Outlook email to text without having to open the email
itself?
I have searched for answers to this and am pretty sure it can't be
done - but thought I'd post a question just in case.
Currently we are manually going through emails recieved on our
Exchange server, right clicking and selecting "View source" and then
searching for "href" or "src" tags in the HTML code to find the actual
links these things are connecting to and then adding these to our spam
block lists so we don't get future spam from them.
Unfortunatly its slow and manual. We though we could speed it up by
automating the finding of the "href" and "src" tags. However, here's
were we hit a problem. You can just copy the email to a Windows
folder, you get a *.msg file. You can open this in Notepad for example
(and I've tried other methods), you can see the TEXT used in the
email, but no HTML, just a lot of garbage. It looks like Exchange
stores the plain text of the message and then also a seperate HTML
version of the email, and the HTML is encoded in some way.
Does anyone know how to uncode it, or is it in some sort of Microsoft
only format? I even looked at a few programs on the web to do this -
but all they do is get you the TEXT part of the message, the don't
actually read or convert the HTML section at all. In fact this is only
what the Save-as text option in Outlook does anyway.
Any clues?
Thanks.
Exchange/Outlook email to text without having to open the email
itself?
I have searched for answers to this and am pretty sure it can't be
done - but thought I'd post a question just in case.
Currently we are manually going through emails recieved on our
Exchange server, right clicking and selecting "View source" and then
searching for "href" or "src" tags in the HTML code to find the actual
links these things are connecting to and then adding these to our spam
block lists so we don't get future spam from them.
Unfortunatly its slow and manual. We though we could speed it up by
automating the finding of the "href" and "src" tags. However, here's
were we hit a problem. You can just copy the email to a Windows
folder, you get a *.msg file. You can open this in Notepad for example
(and I've tried other methods), you can see the TEXT used in the
email, but no HTML, just a lot of garbage. It looks like Exchange
stores the plain text of the message and then also a seperate HTML
version of the email, and the HTML is encoded in some way.
Does anyone know how to uncode it, or is it in some sort of Microsoft
only format? I even looked at a few programs on the web to do this -
but all they do is get you the TEXT part of the message, the don't
actually read or convert the HTML section at all. In fact this is only
what the Save-as text option in Outlook does anyway.
Any clues?
Thanks.