I am trying to find position of certain words in email body (Hi, Hello, Good morning, Kind regards) and get part of email. For 70% of received emails it works fine, but for some emails it does not recognize these words. If I manually forward email to me and then do a search, it finds them, but if I forward it to me via Macro, problem remains.

Sub Display()
    Dim oApp As Outlook.Application
    Dim objFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
    Set oApp = New Outlook.Application
    Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set objFolder = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

    Dim pos1 As Long
    Dim pos2 As Long
    Dim pos3 As Long
    Dim pos4 As Long
    Dim pos5 As Long

    Dim msg As Outlook.MailItem

    For Each objItem In Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection

    Set msg = objItem.Forward

    msg.HTMLBody = objItem.HTMLBody
    msg.Subject = ("Test")

    pos1 = InStr(msg.HTMLBody, "Hi,")
        MsgBox ("pos1 " & pos1)
    pos2 = InStr(msg.HTMLBody, "Hello")
        MsgBox ("pos2 " & pos2)
    pos3 = InStr(msg.HTMLBody, "Good morning")
        MsgBox ("pos3 " & pos3)
    pos4 = InStr(msg.HTMLBody, "Kind regards")
        MsgBox ("pos4 " & pos4)

    If pos5 = 0 Then
        msg.To = "[email protected]"
        msg.Recipients.ResolveAll
        'msg.Send
        msg.Display
        Exit Sub
    End If

    If pos1 = 0 And pos2 = 0 And pos3 = 0 Then
        msg.To = "[email protected]"
        msg.Recipients.ResolveAll
        'msg.Send
        msg.Display
        Exit Sub
    End If


    If Not pos1 = 0 Then
        If Not pos4 = 0 Then
            msg.HTMLBody = Mid(msg.HTMLBody, pos1, pos4 - pos1   Len("Kind regards"))
    End If
    ElseIf Not pos2 = 0 Then
        If Not pos4 = 0 Then
            msg.HTMLBody = Mid(msg.HTMLBody, pos2, pos4 - pos2   Len("Kind regards"))
    End If
    ElseIf Not pos3 = 0 Then
        If Not pos4 = 0 Then
            msg.HTMLBody = Mid(msg.HTMLBody, pos3, pos4 - pos3   Len("Kind regards"))
        End If
    End If

    msg.Display
    Next
End Sub

CodePudding user response：

There is no need to re-assignt the message body when you forward items in Outlook. When you do this manually the following action is not executed:

msg.HTMLBody = objItem.HTMLBody

FYI The Outlook object model provides three main ways for working with item bodies:

1. Body.
2. HTMLBody.
3. The Word editor. The WordEditor property of the Inspector class returns an instance of the Word Document which represents the message body.

See Chapter 17: Working with Item Bodies for more information.