Detecting if attachement is embedded or not

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Russ Green

I've seen lots of discussion on this but no answers.

I have an addin (VB.NET and VSTO) that strips attachements from emails as

they are sent. Trouble is, I don't want to strip attachement (usually

images) that are within the body of the message. I quite often paste images

from the clipboard into my HTML messages and these need to be retained.

So when looping through the attachments in a message how can you robustly

check if the attachment is embedded or not?

Based on other articles I've seen I thought something like this might work

by actually oAttachments.Type doesn't seem to be any different between an

attached XLS file and an embedded JPG file.

Private Function HasNonEmbeddedAttachements() As Boolean

Dim retval As Boolean = False

Dim oAttachment As Outlook.Attachment

If m_olMailItem.Attachments.Count = 0 Then

retval = False

Else

For Each oAttachment In m_olMailItem.Attachments

If oAttachment.Type = Outlook.OlAttachmentType.olByValue

Then

retval = False

Else

retval = True

Exit For

End If

Next

End If

Return retval

End Function
 
May have found a simple way.....seems to work at least but will test for a

while first

Private Function HasNonEmbeddedAttachements() As Boolean

Dim retval As Boolean = False

Dim oAttachment As Outlook.Attachment

If m_olMailItem.Attachments.Count = 0 Then

retval = False

Else

For Each oAttachment In m_olMailItem.Attachments

If m_olMailItem.HTMLBody.ToLower.Contains("cid:" &

oAttachment.FileName) = True Then

retval = False

Else

retval = True

Exit For

End If

Next

End If

Return retval

End Function
 
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