Use perl to create outlook .msg file

[aravinds]

Hi all,

I am using perl on windows and would like to know how to create an outlook email file (.msg)?

Essentially, what I need to create is a file exactly equal to one created by this process:
1. You compose an email in outlook
2. Add To, CC, Subject, HTML Body and do not send it yet but save it as a .msg file on hard-drive.
3. When you open the .msg file from your hard-drive, it automatically opens the email in edit mode and its ready for you to review/send.

Now, I have already written another perl program which auto generates the To,CC,Subject and HTML Body of the email. I need to know how to use PERL to create a .msg file with this information in it, on the hard-drive. I do not want PERL to actually send the message - it just has to create this editable .msg file.

The reason I don't want to send the email but rather create a .msg file is because the system in which these perl programs run does not have outlook configured (cannot be configured due to firewall/designed to not be able to access Exchange Server, although Outlook is installed on this system) and therefore I need PERL to just create the .msg file which I can copy over to another system where I can just open it in Outlook installed there and review it/send it.

I have already looked at other Outlook related posts in perlmonks but did not find one dealing with just creating a msg file as opposed to actually sending the email.

Appreciate if you can help

Thanks

[Anonymous Monk]

cpan://outlook

Mail::Outlook::Message

use Mail::Outlook;
my $outlook = new Mail::Outlook();
# create a message for sending
my $message = $outlook->create();
$message->To('[e-mail]');
$message->Cc('Them <[e-mail]>');
$message->Bcc('Us <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]');
$message->Subject('Blah Blah Blah');
$message->Body('Yadda Yadda Yadda');
$message->Attach(@lots_of_files);
$message->Attach(@more_files);    # attachments are appended
$message->Attach($one_file);      # so multiple calls are allowed
$message->save;

nah Email::Outlook::Message.pm - Read Outlook .msg files

http://www.fileformat.info/format/outlookmsg/# Outlook MSG file format COM stuctured storage OLE2 compound documents

So ole storage, ddg://perl OLE storage outlook .msg, ddg://site:perlmonks.org OLE storage outlook .msg

[aravinds]

Hi Anonymous Monk,

Thanks for your time.

$message->save; saves it in the Drafts folder within Outlook, but I need the program to create a file on the harddrive as a physical file (.msg).

Did not find any useful code snippets on the duckduckgo search engine either.

[kean]

The solution is: $message->SaveAs('C:\test.msg');

[Anonymous Monk]

Um, go to MSDN, find the message object , look for save, save_to, etc, etc

[Anonymous Monk]

I tried this, but it seems to my situation that I cannot create $outlook = new Mail::Outlook()... it always return undef... I don't know why... I have outlook 2007 and installed the perl module Email-Outlook

[QM]

You have commented on an old node, anonymously. Get a login, it's cheap, and then you can search more easily for your own posts, and get /msgs.

You would do better to start a new post, referencing this thread, and show the code you used (see How do I post a question effectively?).