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Load a Mail (.eml) from desktop to Outlook

MauriziaPrette — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:56:00 GMT

Hy everyone, I would like to load into Outlook a mail that I have saved on my desktop as .eml. Do you know how to do that ?

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Maurizia Prette
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RE: Load a Mail (.eml) from desktop to Outlook

steven.boggs — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:12:00 GMT

Hi Maurizia,

There should be a few different ways to accomplish what you describe, including using one of the "Utility" VBOs (such as "File Management") to interact with/open the file in Outlook, then use the Outlook VBO (or automate Outlook in another manner) to manipulate the email itself. Alternately, creating a new Object to interact with the .eml file using a code stage would be a more complex option, but could be better customized to your requirements.

So others can offer up additional suggestions, what have you tried so far and what were the results?

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Steve Boggs
Senior Product Support Engineer
Blue Prism
Austin, TX
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RE: Load a Mail (.eml) from desktop to Outlook

MauriziaPrette — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 08:02:00 GMT

Hi,

thank you very much for this suggestion, at the moment I have not done anything.

My specific need is to load the email into Outlook so that it remains in that mailbox, this is because I have to transfer an email from one Outlook mailbox to another and the only way I thought possible was to download it from a mailbox, save it on the desktop and then reload it on the other box.

Do you have any other suggestion ?

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Maurizia Prette
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RE: Load a Mail (.eml) from desktop to Outlook

steven.boggs — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:25:00 GMT

You can look into the functions of the Outlook VBO on the DX (rather than the out-of-the-box Outlook VBO) to determine if there are actions that would meet your requirement here -- the new "Set Profile" action was added a few months ago and could help with switching between mailboxes within a process. Also now that your requirement is clear, others on the Community will hopefully add their suggestions as to how to specifically design a process that can do what you state by using this VBO from the DX.

Alternately, using the OotB Outlook VBO you can switch to a second profile by closing Outlook using a Terminate action from Utility - Environment VBO and reopen it by using Utility - Environment VBO with the script: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "MySecondUserProfile"

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Steve Boggs
Senior Product Support Engineer
Blue Prism
Austin, TX
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