Outlook add-in in C#: get message header?

Question

2.50/5 (2 votes)

See more:

Hello, guys!
I cannot do simple stuff: get header of email! I wrote VSTO add-in in C# (VS2015) to target Outlook 2013. I can retrieve current message (and I have in hands MailItem object), but it has nothing corresponding to the raw header! I have a few "preparsed" fields inside MailItem interface, but they are useless - I need "Received-SPF" header!
MS again counts a whole world as stupids and "helps" us with ugliest solution they could create! Instead of providing simple Dictionary<string, string> they made "common used headers" as fields - whoa! And these dumbs study us how to program.... nonsense!

So short question: how to get a whole header from message?

Posted 26-Jan-16 6:24am

Thornik

Updated 26-Jan-16 6:45am

v3

Add a Solution

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

NightWizzard · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-26T06:59:00

Solution 1

You can access the properties of each mail item via the propertyaccessor like this:

C#

Const PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x007D001E"

Outlook.PropertyAccessor olPA = olkMsg.PropertyAccessor;
String Header = olPA.GetProperty(PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS);

Posted 26-Jan-16 6:59am

NightWizzard

Comments

Thornik 26-Jan-16 15:37pm

Wizard, thanks!! I met this solution before, but didn't pay attention to such clumsy code. And it's really what MS "architected"!! *face of russian Lavrov*

NightWizzard 26-Jan-16 16:03pm

Yeah, seems to be a bit uncomfortable on first sight, but works fine. You can access nearly all informations about mails and other items, that aren't provided by high-level API. I started with an Outlook addin some years ago and made use of PA's for several infos like SMTP formated addresses of all mail recipients and so on. MS API's sometimes appear worse but wait until you face API's of other software (e.g. Tobit) and you'll praise it! :-)