Copying mail body to new mail by coding

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In Outlook 2013 I want content of mail body in a new mail programmatically.
Below is my code for same:

C#

void Inspectors_NewInspector(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Inspector Inspector)
{
    Outlook.MailItem mailItem = Inspector.CurrentItem as Outlook.MailItem;
    Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
    Outlook.Explorer oExplorer = oApp.ActiveExplorer();
    Outlook.Selection oSelection = oExplorer.Selection;

    foreach (object item in oSelection)
    {
        Outlook.MailItem mi = (Outlook.MailItem)item;
        mailItem.HTMLBody = mi.HTMLBody;
    }
}

Everything works fine, but the image present in original mail is not displayed, instead it shows something like cid:image002.png.

Not sure what is the reason please help.

Also i want to give it to client, so i can't save mail content local.

Posted 20-Oct-15 20:14pm

Digambar Malla

Updated 20-Oct-15 20:23pm

Tomas Takac

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Nathan Minier · Answer 1 · 2015-10-21T03:07:00

You need to copy the attachments over as well. Based on the context of the code that you gave, this should work:

C#

...
foreach (object item in oSelection)
    {
        Outlook.MailItem mi = (Outlook.MailItem)item;
        mailItem.HTMLBody = mi.HTMLBody;
        if(mi.Attachments != null && mi.Attachmets.Count > 0)
        {
           foreach(var attach in mi.Attachments)
           {
               mailItem.Attachments.Add(attach);
           }
        }
    }

In Outlook the attachments are used as the image data source for "embedded" images.