Wrong text in emails sended by outlook with C#

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Hallo!

I have a strange problem and would highly appreciate any help!
I am sending an email like this:

C#

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application oApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.NameSpace oNameSpace = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPI");
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder oFolder = oNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail);
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem oItem = oFolder.Items.Add(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);
Ol.Accounts accs = oNameSpace.Accounts;

string sEmailText = = "This is a stupid dummy text.\nIt is here to test if sending stupid emails even with a dummy text is not possible correctly!\n\nIn Love\nyour cookie!";
				
oItem.To = receiver[0];
oItem.Subject = "test"  
oItem.Body = sEmailText;

for (int i = 1; i <= accs.Count; i++)
{
     Ol.Account acc = accs[i];
}
				
oItem.BodyFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatRichText;
oItem.Send();

In oItem.Body the email looks perfectly right. But when I receive the email in my Outlook the text is the following:

This is a stupid dummy text.
It is here to test if sending stupid emails even with a dummy text is not possible correctly!

In Love
your cookie!

<HTML>This is a stupid dummy text.
It is here to test if sending stupid emails even with a dummy text is not possible correctly!

In Love
your cookie!

I tried my very best but I just cannot make out any failure... Maybe anyone could help?
Thank you very very much!

Tom

edit:
Maybe it is also important to tell you that the email text is not always doubled like above. Sometimes it is just a piece of the original text, that is added to the correct mail.

Posted 18-Mar-13 1:50am

Tieftontier

Updated 18-Mar-13 1:56am

v2

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Solution 2

Hello.

Here[^] is aMS Support article showing how to send email via outlooik. The major difference I can see between your code and MS support code is, how the message gets created. May be following code wrok's correctly for you.

C#

Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.MailItem oMsg = (Outlook.MailItem)oApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);

Outlook.Recipient oRecip = (Outlook.Recipient) oMsg.Recipients.Add(receiver[0]);
oRecip.Resolve();

oMsg.Subject = "test";
oMsg.Body = "This is a stupid dummy text.\nIt is here to test if sending stupid emails even with a dummy text is not possible correctly!\n\nIn Love\nyour cookie!";
oMsg.Save();
oMsg.Send();

Regards,

Posted 18-Mar-13 2:03am

Prasad Khandekar

v3

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Prasad_Kulkarni 18-Mar-13 10:01am

5'ed! :D

Tieftontier 19-Mar-13 2:15am

Thanks a lot! Did not try this, because Solution 3 which is faster to change worked for me :-)

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-18T02:28:00

Solution 3

Try setting the _MailItem.BodyFormat Property[^] to olFormatPlain.

Posted 18-Mar-13 2:28am

Richard MacCutchan

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Tieftontier 19-Mar-13 2:14am

Thank you very much! So simple, but it helped... Thought that I already tried that, but you know how it is: I did not^^

Richard MacCutchan 19-Mar-13 5:13am

Ah, we have all done that from time to time.

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