I need to find out, what type of character set it is, if I save an email from outlook 2010 in non-unicode format. At saving you can choose between .msg file and unicode .msg file. Is it depending on the version (english, german, etc.)?
How can I find out?
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It will use the code page stored in the PR_INTERNET_CPID MAPI property. You can see it in OutlookSpy (I am its author) if you click the IMessage button. An MSG file can be opened by clicking OpenIMsgOnIStg button.
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My university deletes students' Outlook email account after they graduate and so I am exporting my inbox at a .olm file.
I figured this would be sufficient to save my meaningful emails that I want to save, but I wonder how I will ever open the .olm file if the account itself will be deleted...
Any ideas/info?
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OLM files are used only by Mac as Database file by Microsoft Outlook and can't be opened by the Windows version of Outlook because the Windows version uses .PST files rather than the OLM format.
assuming you have mac if not then To open OLM files in Windows, you can first convert the OLM file to the PST.
But there are other ways to save Outlook emails
Text only format
Outlook Message Format .msg – the older version of .msg
does not support the full range of Unicode characters.
Outlook Message Format – Unicode the newer of .msg that
includes Unicode characters.
I will use this .msg format. These days ‘plain’ can have Unicode for emoji etc.
Save to Word
Outlook Template .oft to make a template for new emails.
HTML – a web page version of the message
MHT – also a web page but with images etc embedded into a single
file.
making the subject line of the message the file name.
Remember all the above formats are indexed by OS, You will be able to find a saved message by searching words in the message.
Save to PDF
PDF is another way to store ‘permanent’ or archival documents.
look into examples like python or VBA code that can help you save emails to the format you need.
In Word (or Excel) when I save and send the currently open file to my Email client (Thunderbird) a normal Email window gets opened and the file has been attached. Additionally an image containing my contact data is attached as my signature automatically and correctly. I can add text and change its format. So far the contents are in HTML.
Then I save a draft (I don't send out the Email!) and close the Email window. Later when I open that draft, the attached file (Word or Excel file) is still attached BUT my signature (the image file) is gone. The Email text looks like plain text content.
I am using Thunderbird 45.8.0 (the most current version) and Windows 7 Professional.
Appreciate any hints and ideas that could help!
This is simply a bug in Thunderbird.
This is in Notes 8.5 environment.
I just wanted to know how to attach an email to another email as real attachment not a "Document Link".
I intended to attach an email, so I drag & dropped an email to another email's body but this turned out to be a "Document Link". This is an issue when I deleted the original attachment(an email in this case) and want to open the attachment again.
Tried to drag & drop the email to desktop and attach that through the "Choose file" dialog, didn't work either.
So how can I do that? I'm trying to get the attachment programmatically.
The only way I know is this:
Reassure that preferences | Basic Notes Client configuration | Drag and drop saves as eml file is checked
1) Drag your email to e.g. your desktop or to an explorer instance (will be saved as an eml file).
2) Attach this file to your opened email by either selecting it with the paperclip menu item or drag 'n drop the file into the opened email.
Open msg
Save to desktop
Open new mail
Attached *.eml file on desktop
Sad to say, this is the only way I know which sux because in Outlook, you just need to copy and paste.
Answer from Chris is not possible
because there is no save mail option
(at least in version 8.5) in LN
It is possible, File > Save As
answer from Alexey creates MS Outlook eml files, so if you don't have Outlook e-mail client doesn't help.
Answer from Chris is not possible because there is no save mail option (at least in version 8.5) in LN.
So one of the possible solutions would be to hold control, select all mails you want to attach, right click on the selected mails, from the menu select Forward and it will open the new message with all selected mails in the body of the new message.
You can slecet sent item /email and drag to desktop , it will automatic created new file on desktop. Then you can attach and send it in to new emails.
I have recently encountered the same issue and hopefully what follows will be helpful.
In Windows, the default program for opening .eml files is set to Outlook. Every user of Lotus notes should take the steps to have .eml files defaulted to open via Lotus notes.
Start menu--- Defaults programs---Lotus notes-- and check .eml--- then save.
After performing this, Lotus notes will be the default to open these attachments.
I have been trying to do this for a while also.
Here is what I do now.
Highlight the email you want to create as a file.
Click on Create. Hover over Special, then click on Link message.
This will open up a new tab for the link.
At the bottom of the message is a small yellow piece of paper icon.
Copy this icon and paste into your message like you would any other file.
It is tiny, so I put a statement like "see email attachment ---->" in front of the icon.
You might like this way. Not sure though.
Tested vith Notes versions 6.5.x and 7.0.x
From your Lotus Notes inbox
Open the message
Click View > Show > Page Source
Copy all the data into a text file and save the file with .eml extension.
Create a new message
Attach the .eml file(s) and send the new message
Hop this helps. I have no client on my current machine but will test from home on 8.5.1
Copy the mail as a document link (right click on the mail and you should get this option) and paste it in the new mail. This worked for me
Talking about IBM Notes v. 9 is pretty easy.
To choose the e-mail to be attached and drag until the new e-mail.
Click on email which you want to forward
Edit - > Copy As -> Document Link
create new mail and paste.
it will work
If you are using Lotus Notes V9.X, it is better to drag the mail to desktop as .eml and then attach it to the mail. Safest way so far.
Although probably not exactly what your looking for and you probably don't care at this point since the question was asked 5 years ago, one method is to use "forward".
Go to your inbox or wherever your messages are and select the 2+ messages you want to send than simply click forward... all messages get combined into 1.
I might be very late but encoutered this problem sometime before and saw this link.
Thanks . Please check this shall work.
Goto Create menu -> Section--> Copy email to be inserted
I want to send booking information through mail in an attachment to add in MS Outlook.
Which format is better? Especially for MS Outlook 2003?
iCalendar was based on a vCalendar and Outlook 2007 handles both formats well so it doesn't really matters which one you choose.
I'm not sure if this stands for Outlook 2003. I guess you should give it a try.
Outlook's default calendar format is iCalendar (*.ics)
Both .ics and .vcs files are in ASCII. If you use "Save As" option to save a calendar entry
(Appt, Meeting Request/Response/Postpone/Cancel and etc) in both .ics and .vcs format and
use vimdiff, you can easily see the difference.
Both .vcs (vCal) and .ics (iCal) belongs to the same VCALENDAR camp, but .vcs file shows
"VERSION:1.0" whereas .ics file uses "VERSION:2.0".
The spec for vCalendar v1.0 can be found at http://www.imc.org/pdi/pdiproddev.html. The spec for iCalendar (vCalendar v2.0) is in RFC5545. In general, the newer is better, and
that is true for Outlook 2007 and onward, but not for Outlook 2003.
For Outlook 2003, the behavior is peculiar. It can save the same calendar entry in both
.ics and .vcs format, but it only read & display .vcs file correctly. It can read
.ics file but it omits some fields and does not display it in calendar mode. My guess is
that back then Microsoft wanted to provide .ics to be compatible with Mac's iCal but
not quite committed to v2.0 yet.
So I would say for Outlook 2003, .vcs is the native format.
You can try VCS to ICS file converter (Java, works with Windows, Mac, Linux etc.). It has the feature of parsing events and todos.
You can convert the VCS generated by your Nokia phone, with bluetooth export or via nbuexplorer.
Complete support for UTF-8
Quoted-printable encoded strings
Completely open source code (GPLv3 and Apache 2.0)
Standard iCalendar v2.0 output
Encodes multiple files at once (only one event per file)
Compatible with Android, iOS, Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird, Google Calendar and others
Multiplatform
The VCS files can have its information coded in Quoted printable which is a nightmare. The above solution recommending "VCS to ICS Calendar Converter" is the way to go.
The newer iCalendar format, with more data attached, includes information about the person who created the event, so that when it is imported into Outlook (for example), changes to that event are communicated via email to the creator. This can be helpful when you need to inform others of any changes.
However, when I am just exporting an event from one of my calendars to another, I prefer to use vCalendar, since this does not require sending an email message to the creator (usually myself) if I make a change or delete something.
I am trying to read and process Japanese emails. I have set my regional and language options to East Asian and languages for non-Unicode in the XP control panel. I have to process .pst files and preserve the true metadata and I am having trouble with the subject line and sometimes the to: and cc: fields. I get my message body to show Japanese fine but then I get gibberish in the subject as shown below
CC FIELD: cc. ￨ﾨﾈﾔﾻ￣ﾀﾀ￦ﾝﾉ￥ﾱﾱ￦ﾙﾺ￦ﾁﾒ
SUBJECT FIELD: Re: 三è±ï¼¬ï¼£ï¼¤æ’¤é€€ã«é–¢ã™ã‚‹æƒ…å ±åŠã³åŒ—米液晶状æ³
MESSAGE BODY: 佐藤さんへ：情報ありがとうございます。この機に是非とも三菱パークをリプレースしたいものです。ところでこのシニアマネージャーはどうされたのですか？内も苦しいですが。
中村マネージャー：ＡＤＩはＣＰＴへ売却打診中とのこと。うーん。
I am not a programmer so please simplify any recommendations you have as to how I can fix the subject line. FYI, I am using Outlook 07 Pro, Windows XP Pro and the .pst files are pre-existing so they are being opened via: File-->open outlook data file.
Most likely, the header lines contain Japanese characters encoded in ISO-2022-JP without this being specified so, i.e. the emails contained in the PST files are violating the specifications. You may be able to get around this by specifying the encoding manually within the Outlook settings - I don't have Outlook, so I can't tell you where exactly to look. If Outlook does not have that option, then you're pretty much hosed - you'd have to find a Japanese version of Outlook, or a third-party application that can read PST files and allows you to manually set the encoding.