Hi,

I have been using Outlook Redemption for about a year now and it's been
incredibly useful in the development of an add-in for Outlook
2K/XP/2003. I am trying to retrieve the e-mail (well actually, only the
recipients, body and attachments) that is being composed by the user
and export an RFC822 version of it.

For months my code was actually extracting the various parts of the
message I needed, reconstructing it using CDO (cdosys.dll), and getting
the RFC822 stream that CDO would provide. It worked "fairly" well
(considering the fact that I had to deal with different body formats,
different attachment types, etc.). But then I found out there was a
much easier way to do it: simply use the SaveAs() method of a
SafeMailItem object.

It litterally cut my code in half, it is much cleaner, faster,
efficient! But I recently found a bug I had never encountered with that
method. On two machines running Windows XP with Outlook 2000, calling
the SaveAs() method freezes Outlook -- we have to kill it using the
task manager. (The issue is not related specifically to either Windows
XP nor Outlook 2000, because it worked fine on other computers running
them.) It is also not an issue with filename or write permissions,
because I can OpenForOutput/Print/Close the same file in plain VB.

I know of a couple of ways to make Outlook or the add-in crash when
trying to save a MailItem (like using Outlook's built-in encryption,
and then trying to save it programmatically), but this one, I had never
encountered. I am now clueless about what I should do to fix this
issue. I don't want to have to go back to my old bulky code... What are
the possible reasons for this SaveAs() method to fail or to have a
similar behavior?

(I hope Dmitry Streblechenko sees this!)

Thanks!!