The code you show doesn't look like a problem.

Is the mail item displaying?

If it does display does it show the body in the UI?

Do you get Body if you wait a while after opening the item before you read
body?

What about using similar code in the Outlook VBA project, does that work?

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
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"Peg" wrote in message
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We are still using mailboxes. Most of our users have pst files but some
keep
their mail on the server and use cached exchange mode.

here is my code for obtaining the message:
...
Outlook.MailItem mi = obj as Outlook.MailItem;
...
mi.Display(false);
...
sNewComments = mi.Body;
...
mi.Close(OlInspectorClose.olSave)
...

There is a lot more of course, so if you need it I do not think you want
it
posted in this forum
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Peg