IPM.Sharing extra characters

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Hi
When saving IPM.Sharing messages from PST storage, I get output msg or eml like this:

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@australian.dev.nerds

Can you please provide more details about the issue you are facing with the extra characters when saving IPM.Sharing messages? What specific output are you expecting?

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Well, dear AI, analyze the attached image and you’ll find out :slight_smile:

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Hello,

Would it be possible to provide a sample PST containing an IPM.Sharing message, so that we can reproduce the issue?

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Hi
Pst is 150mb so I tried to use PersonalStorage.DeleteItem on every other folder and item to reduce its size, but after deleting everything else, not a single byte was reduced from the Pst, is that expected or another issue?
Is DeleteItem really removed items permanently? or kinda soft delete them to be able to restore them?
If so, how to hard delete them permanently without possibility to restore items?
Thanks.

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PST files are structured to retain their original size even after items are deleted. The space from deleted items is marked as available and reused for storing new data.
To actually reduce the PST file size, Outlook provides a separate utility.
The PersonalStorage.DeleteItem method deletes items permanently.

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Thanks, I will send the sample ASAP, by the way, is there a similar DeleteItem method for Mbox storages? If not, possible to add? Triple very useful, thanks :slight_smile:

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MBOX files are append-only by design and modifying them in-place (e.g., deleting or editing individual messages) isn’t standard practice.
If you need to “delete” messages from an MBOX file, you can simulate this by:

  1. Reading messages from the original MBOX.
  2. Filtering out the messages you want to delete.
  3. Write the remaining messages into a new MBOX file.
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IPM.Sharing extra characters: I saved from pst to memory stream, then loaded it to mailmessage and saved as html, causing extra text and the beginning of the output html:

Debugging is easy, open the project and search for string “!SupportsSharedCalendar” and evaluate the condition, how’s that?
Thanks :slight_smile:

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Thanks, may I share one more sample?
See this pst, under Sync Issues > Conflicts > there’s one IPM.Contact item, load it and save it as html, I get a corrupt output:
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Aust.Dev.Nerd@outlook.com.zip (1.1 MB)

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Thank you for sharing the sample. I’ll forward it to the dev for investigation.

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Now I posted the 2nd sample, no idea why posted as 14hours ago!

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I’m not sure what happened, but it seems your comment with the first sample isn’t visible — I can’t find it. Also, to keep things organized, please post separate issues in individual threads.

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Thanks, here’s the IPM.Sharing Pst:

IPM.Sharing.zip (265.1 KB)

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@australian.dev.nerds, Thank you.

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@australian.dev.nerds
We have opened the following new ticket(s) in our internal issue tracking system and will deliver their fixes according to the terms mentioned in Free Support Policies.

Issue ID(s): EMAILNET-41587,EMAILNET-41588

You can obtain Paid Support Services if you need support on a priority basis, along with the direct access to our Paid Support management team.

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Hi,
As per release notes: EMAILNET-41587: IPM.Sharing extra characters is fixed?
I tried the 25.6 with the same code and sample but it seems not:

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Thanks.

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@australian.dev.nerds,

I’ve verified that the issue has been fixed in 25.6.

Please make sure that you are referencing the correct version in your project. DLL is updated and not cached from an older release.

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Thanks, but I’m pretty sure, I guess that all cases all closed inaccurately, will upload a sample to demonstrate both cases which are falsely claimed to be fixed :slight_smile:

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Hi,

We don’t agree with your assessment, the issues were fixed. You’ll our conclusions and reasoning in your new thread.