Error reading mail body from outlook 2010

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I am trying to read my Outlook 2010 inbox and all works good until I start reading my mail body

C#

MyOutlookItem = ((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)myInbox.Items[ItemNo]);
...
string body = MyOutlookItem.Body

C#

'MyOutlookItem.Body threw an exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException'

Can any one help me

Thanks in Advance

What I have tried:

All possible references are added
MyOutlookItem is checked for NULL

Posted 9-Mar-16 6:36am

thenewbee

Updated 10-Mar-16 1:25am

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Maciej Los 9-Mar-16 17:06pm

You should check if MyOutlookItem is null before...
BTW: What is exact error message?

thenewbee 10-Mar-16 5:10am

Hi
Thanks for the reply.
MyOutlookItem is checked for null and its returning success for other properties like MyOutlookItem.Subject. But when try to access the mail body it fails.
The exact error is "Unspecified error (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004005 (E_FAIL))"

Maciej Los 10-Mar-16 7:16am

Full error message, please...

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2016-03-10T01:25:00

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Seems that isn't programming issue...

Such of error is displayed when the level of privileges in not enough. Please see: Error Reading Outlook Calendar Appointment with C# program - Stack Overflow[^]

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thenewbee[^] wrote:
But what confuses me is that I tried to access the same outlook folder from Ms Access and it successfully retrieved all mail body with no errors.
Is Access using another mechanism to access the folders?

Well, if this is not privileges issue... Check antivirus software: Reading email body crashes from Visual Basic[^]

Finally, i'd suggest to change BodyFormat[^] to "Plain Text" before you'll access to Body.

Posted 10-Mar-16 1:25am

Maciej Los

Updated 10-Mar-16 5:32am

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thenewbee 10-Mar-16 10:05am

Yes, I agree and I have seen that link.
But what confuses me is that I tried to access the same outlook folder from Ms Access and it successfully retrieved all mail body with no errors.
Is Access using another mechanism to access the folders?

Maciej Los 10-Mar-16 10:39am

Wow! Very interesting observation. I can't reproduce your problem.
Have you tried to debug the programme?

thenewbee 10-Mar-16 11:06am

Yes and verified that MyOutlookItem is not null. Only Body, htmlbody are not accessible