Development

Experimental # 6

What is the Best Body?

In the beginning, when the e-mail revolution was conceived – it was easy – the body of the messages was only as „simple“ text.
Over time, a consumer wants to see the important things in messages in different ways, to have pictures, embedded objects …
And of course, IT companies are responding to their wishes.
But this led to a situation in which messages contain „Plain“, „Rich“, „HTML“ version of the body.
And this entire – for compatibility.

Currently, many developers ask:

„How to get the best format for the message body?“
PR_BODY, PR_RTF_COMPRESSED, PR_HTML?

What is the „Best“?

This example application is trying to answer all these questions.

More over:
– There is not any third-party components for displaying HTML messages.
– Pure virtual list – no need to downloads the entire list of received messages, it is not necessary to use auxiliary structures – let’s MAPI to work for us – the fastest and most elegant way for the visualization of large lists – so that your Inbox may contain as few hundred or thousands of messages.
– Quickly and elegantly sorting by Subject, Sender, Date, Size, etc …

procedure TfrmMain.RenderBody(ItemId: Integer);
var
  Rows: PSRowSet;
  PropValue: PSPropValue;
  MAPIMessage: IMessage;
  hr: HRESULT;
  ObjType: ULONG;
  MsgBody: String;
  BodyType: TMsgBodyType;
  CodePage: Integer;
  OurCursor: TCursor;
begin

  Rows := GetRow(ListView.Selected.Index, ListView.Items.Count);
  if not Assigned(Rows) then
    exit;

  PropValue := PpropFindProp(Rows.aRow[0].lpProps, Rows.aRow[0].cValues,
    PR_ENTRYID);
  try
    if not Assigned(PropValue) or not Assigned(FInboxFolder) then
      exit;

    hr := FInboxFolder.OpenEntry(PropValue.Value.bin.cb,
      PENTRYID(PropValue.Value.bin.lpb), @IID_IMessage, MAPI_BEST_ACCESS,
      ObjType, IUnknown(MAPIMessage));
    if failed(hr) then
      raise EMapiError.CreateMAPI(FInboxFolder, hr);

    MsgBody := GetBestBody(MAPIMessage, BodyType);

    case BodyType of
      aPlain:
        lbBB.Caption := 'Best Body Format: Plain Text';
      aRTF:
        lbBB.Caption := 'Best Body Format: RTF';
      aHTML:
        lbBB.Caption := 'Best Body Format: HTML';
      aRtfToHml:
        lbBB.Caption := 'Best Body Format: HTML From RTF';
    else // aUndefined
      lbBB.Caption := 'Best Body Format: Unknown';
    end;

    if BodyType in [aHTML .. aRtfToHml] then
    begin
      CodePage := 0;

      OurCursor := Cursor;
      Cursor := crHourGlass;

      try
        if FPropExists(MAPIMessage, PR_INTERNET_CPID) then
          CodePage := CheckCP(GetPropLong(MAPIMessage, PR_INTERNET_CPID));

        PageControl.ActivePage := TabSheetIE;

        if AnsiContainsText(MsgBody, 'src="cid:') or
          AnsiContainsText(MsgBody, 'src=cid:') or
          AnsiContainsText(MsgBody, 'src=''cid:') then
          CreateMimeMessage(MAPIMessage, MsgBody, WebBrowser, CodePage)
        else
        begin
          LoadDocFromString(WebBrowser, MsgBody, CodePage);
        end;

      finally
        Cursor := OurCursor;
      end;

    end
    else
    begin
      PageControl.ActivePage := TabSheetRichEdit;
      RichEdit.PlainText := False;
      RichEdit.Lines.LoadFromStream(TStringStream.Create(MsgBody));
    end;

  finally
    if Assigned(Rows) then
      FreePRows(Rows);
    MAPIMessage := nil;
  end;
  Self.ActiveControl := ListView;
  if Assigned(ListView.Selected) then
    SelectedItemIndex := ListView.Selected.Index;
end;