Hello,
    I have a folder on my cdrive that contains saved email messages from outlook. I would like to write some code that would open these saved email messages and allow the user to read the contents of the messages and view any attachments.


Any suggestions on code would be very appreciated.


Thanks very much!

I think if you "Shell" to the saved message, Windows will open Outlook and display the message, just as when you shell to a .DOC Word is opened with that document.

Hi Brian,
         Thanks for responding. I actually ended up using ShellExecute. I was hoping, however, to make a custom form in VB and load the text from the email into a text box and then any attachments into a drop down box. The problem I am having is I do not know how to make a saved email on the harddrive into a olMailItem object.

Email-saving files are pretty complicated. You would need to either find a component someone else has made that reads emails (like outlook :)), or write code to read the email yourself. That means handling the different message types (Rich Text, Plain Text, HTML), properly handling embedded data (pasted pictures, attachments, font color or face changes), and a whole host of similar issues.

This seems unjustifiably difficult, since there is OutLook already there. (There might be an easier way, but I’m dubious.)