Detaching embedded Images from Outlook 2003 Messages

[Wassim]

Hello All

Is there a clean way to detach embedded images, or pictures, from
MS-Outlook 2003 messages via VBA?

What I want to do is extract all the images embedded in a message and
save them to a special folder.

I am doing this via code, so that I don't need to sift through the
1000s of messages that we get.

Thanks

Wassim

 

[Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]]

The only way to access embedded images is with Extended MAPI (C++/Delphi).

 

[Grég]

Hi,

You can try the code below, it works to extract most attachements (of
current opened message).

Regards.
--->
Sub Get_Attachment()
Dim attach As Attachment
Dim myitem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim myOlapp As Object
Dim attachs As Object

On Error Resume Next

Set myOlapp = Application
Set myitem = myOlapp.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
Set attachs = myitem.Attachments

For Each attach In attachs
attach.SaveAsFile "C:\temp\OL-attach\" & attach.DisplayName
Next
End Sub
<----

This code is mostly from MS KB. Its purpose was to save smime.p7m file that
you can't acces as a "standard" attachement.

 

[Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]]

Thanks Greg. Your code is of course correct for dealing with most attachments, however Wassim's issue is specifically with embedded images (of type olOle). These Attachment objects do not have a valid file handle like regular attachments, and cannot be saved as a file using Outlook VBA.

 

[Wassim]

Thank You Eric

I am way not familiar with C++ or Delphi, has anyone done any work
that I can take as a starting point and see how it works?

Also, if this is the only way to deal with embedded images, is there a
way to detect them in a message via VBA?

Maybe what I can do is detect the messages that has embedded images,
and then isolate them into a folder and deal with these messages
manually.

Thanks

Wassim

 

[Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]]

Sorry, I don't know much if anything about C++/Delphi, nor can I point you to any resources.

Embedded images are still valid Attachment objects, and Attachment.Type = olOle. They also differ from normal attachments in that the FileName and PathName properties return errors when you try to access their values (PathName error number is -903856123, FileName error number is -2082455547).

 

[nycboy]

Hi Wassim and Eric,

I am curious about the messages with embedded images.
Are they only for Outlook 2003, or other versions too?
Can you send me a sample message of this kind? I would
like to play with it.

Thanks!

-david
[email protected]


---- Original message ----

Re: Detaching embedded Images from Outlook 2003 Messages
From: Wassim
Date Posted: 6/16/2004 4:44:00 PM



Thank You Eric

I am way not familiar with C++ or Delphi, has anyone done any work
that I can take as a starting point and see how it works?

Also, if this is the only way to deal with embedded images, is there a
way to detect them in a message via VBA?

Maybe what I can do is detect the messages that has embedded images,
and then isolate them into a folder and deal with these messages
manually.

Thanks

Wassim


Re: Detaching embedded Images from Outlook 2003 Messages
From: Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]
Date Posted: 6/16/2004 8:48:00 PM



Sorry, I don't know much if anything about C++/Delphi, nor can I point
you to any resources.

Embedded images are still valid Attachment objects, and Attachment.Type
= olOle. They also differ from normal attachments in that the FileName
and PathName properties return errors when you try to access their
values (PathName error number is -903856123, FileName error number is
-2082455547).

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[Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]]

All versions of Outlook support embedded images in HTML/Rich Text message
bodies. However, the issue we are referring to occurs with images embedded
in Rich Text messages that cause the Attachment object to behave
differently.

A simple way to do this is to copy an image from a Word document and paste
it into the body of the message.

 

[Grég]

Eric,

I think it is "embedded" which was for me quite confusing. In fact, the
code works also for image inserted in html as:
<img width=200 height=160 id="_x0000_i1025"
src="cid:[email protected]">
This type of images seems embedded as they appear in the text and not in the
attachement section. But I can understand this is not the "embedded" type
you are discussing as this type of image is of type olAttachements.

--
Grég

Thanks Greg. Your code is of course correct for dealing with most

attachments, however Wassim's issue is specifically with embedded images (of
type olOle). These Attachment objects do not have a valid file handle like
regular attachments, and cannot be saved as a file using Outlook VBA.