vb.netemailoutlook

Odd <end> tag on message view Outlook 2013 Microsoft Office Interop

I'm using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook, VB.net and Office 2013 to generate a MailItem, and then send the item to Outlook, show the email window and let the user edit it/send it from Outlook 2013. The main things I'm doing are:

I create the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem object and fill it with the relevant information, I generate an HTML constant for the body like this

Private Const mstrHTML_FORMAT As String = "<html><p style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;'>{0}</p></html>"

Then I add the text I want to a string variable strBody and use String.Format to insert the text in the HTMLBody of my object:

objMailItem.HTMLBody = String.Format(mstrHTML_FORMAT, strBody)

I also change the format of the body to HTML:

 objMailItem.BodyFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML

After a few other steps I send it to the view

objMailItem.Display(True)

My problem is, when the user sends the email, the receiver will see that the email has a message with the subject as Text

any clue of why this happens?

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Solution

  • It's an Outlook "feature". Outlook purposely displays <end> in the message preview when the body isn't long enough to fill the preview.

    It's not caused by your code or any bad HTML formatting, and this tag won't actually be present in the body text.