Hi All, my VB macro in Outlook fails while accessing the body of digitally
signed emails. The following line,

mystring = MailItem.Body

fails giving error pop-up saying "Run-time error '-1040171007 (c2004001)':
The operation failed"

Can somebody pl give me a clue how to get around this ? thanks a bunch !

You cannot read signed messages from Body it will return an error. Check the
message class of the item and if it's a signed or encrypted message skip it.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Outlook Dabbler" Outlook wrote in
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Hi All, my VB macro in Outlook fails while accessing the body of digitally
signed emails. The following line,

mystring = MailItem.Body

fails giving error pop-up saying "Run-time error '-1040171007 (c2004001)':
The operation failed"

Can somebody pl give me a clue how to get around this ? thanks a bunch !

Thanks Ken ! for replying back. I am using this Outlook VB code to load the
body of emails from our customers into our CRM application. Is there no way I
can get to the body of the digitally signed emails ? thanks..

regards,
Shiv Kotagal


"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

You cannot read signed messages from Body it will return an error. Check the
message class of the item and if it's a signed or encrypted message skip it.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Outlook Dabbler" Outlook wrote in
message news
Hi All, my VB macro in Outlook fails while accessing the body of digitally
signed emails. The following line,

mystring = MailItem.Body

fails giving error pop-up saying "Run-time error '-1040171007 (c2004001)':
The operation failed"

Can somebody pl give me a clue how to get around this ? thanks a bunch !

Not from the Body or any of the other standard methods.

What you want is actually an attachment on the item. See
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/...5-01/0180.html
for a little more information about that.

Also see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=194623 for information about
detecting signed/encrypted information. It's a CDO 1.21 article but applies
to the Outlook object model also.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Outlook Dabbler" wrote in
message ...
Thanks Ken ! for replying back. I am using this Outlook VB code to load
the
body of emails from our customers into our CRM application. Is there no
way I
can get to the body of the digitally signed emails ? thanks..

regards,
Shiv Kotagal

I've found a solution: you have to forward the mail once before accessing the body:

_MailItem newMail = ((_MailItem)eMail).Forward();
newMail.Close(OlInspectorClose.olDiscard);
newMail = null;

After it the mail is opened in ui mode and all properties can be accessed.