How do I determine the format of the body of the msg file. ( example: rtf- html etc.)

Aspose.Email Product Family
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Private Sub GetMessageContents(ByVal msgFile As String)
Try
Dim msg As MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(msgFile, MessageFormat.Msg)
Dim strFrom As String = msg.From.Address
Dim strTo As String = ""
For Each toAddress As MailAddress In msg.To
strTo += toAddress.Address & "; "
Next toAddress
Dim strCC As String = ""
For Each CCAddress As MailAddress In msg.CC
strCC += CCAddress.Address & "; "
Next CCAddress
Dim strSubject As String = msg.Subject
Dim strBody As String = msg.Body.ToString
Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "Error")
End Try
End Sub
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Hi Carl,

Thank you for using Aspose.Email.

You can refer to the body type of the message body from the BodyContentType Enumerator as follow:

MailMessage msg = MailMessage.Load(“Test.msg”, MessageFormat.Msg);

BodyContentType bct = msg.BodyType;

Please give it a try at your end and let us know your feedback.

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Thanks for the response. The below works however it seems to always return HTML regardless if it is a rtf formatted email or not.


Dim message As MailMessage
message = MailMessage.Load(msgFile, MessageFormat.Msg)

Dim bct = message.BodyType.ToString

I also tried the below:
Dim htmlFormat As Boolean = False
htmlFormat = message.IsBodyHtml
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Hi Carl,


Thanks for the feedback.

Can you please provide us some sample files for further investigation in this regard? I have observed the issue at my end end, but just want its confirmation using your sample files. I will investigate this issue further and report it to our development team as soon as possible.
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Attached are the msg files requested.

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Hi Carl,


Thank you for the supporting material.

I have logged the complete details along with the MSG files in our issue tracking system (issue ID: NETWORKNET-33525) for further investigation by our development team. We will update you about resolution of this issue or any work around once we have any news in this regard.

Also, I would like to share with you that I have tried the same with MapiMessage using the following code and it does return correct results (output screenshot attached). You may not want to use MapiMessage in this case, but I thought to share my findings with you. I have accompanied these details with the logged ticket as well and development team will look into it.


MailMessage mailMsg = MailMessage.Load(“Plain Text Msg.msg”, MessageFormat.Msg);

MapiMessage mapiMsg = MapiMessage.FromFile(“Plain Text Msg.msg”);

Console.WriteLine(“MailMessage - Body Content Type: {0}”, mailMsg.BodyType.ToString());

Console.WriteLine(“MapiMessage - Body Content Type: {0}”, mapiMsg.BodyType.ToString());


mailMsg = MailMessage.Load(“Rich Text Msg.msg”, MessageFormat.Msg);

mapiMsg = MapiMessage.FromFile(“Rich Text Msg.msg”);

Console.WriteLine(“MailMessage - Body Content Type: {0}”, mailMsg.BodyType.ToString());

Console.WriteLine(“MapiMessage - Body Content Type: {0}”, mapiMsg.BodyType.ToString());


mailMsg = MailMessage.Load(“HTML Text Msg.msg”, MessageFormat.Msg);

mapiMsg = MapiMessage.FromFile(“HTML Text Msg.msg”);

Console.WriteLine(“MailMessage - Body Content Type: {0}”, mailMsg.BodyType.ToString());

Console.WriteLine(“MapiMessage - Body Content Type: {0}”, mapiMsg.BodyType.ToString());