Including Pictures in an Outlook Email

Question

I\'m trying to use a Microsoft Word document as the body to an Microsoft Outlook email. So far I have been able to include the text from a Word .docx into the body of the em

Answer 1

First of all, you are setting the plain text MailItem.Body property. Secondly, create an attachment and set the PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID property (DASL name "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F") using Attachment.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty.

Your HTML body (MailItem.HTMLBody property) would then need to reference that image attachment through the cid attribute:

where xyz is the value of the PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID property.

Look at an existing message with OutlookSpy (click IMessage button).

EDIT: sample script (off the top of my head):

attachment = MailItem.Attachments.Add("c:\temp\MyPicture.jpg")
attachment.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F", "MyId1")
MailItem.HTMLBody = "Test image "