Open a .msg in the current Outlook session

Open a .msg in the current Outlook session. First, copies it to a temporary location, to avoid locking it.

open_msg(ol_app, path_msg, show_message = TRUE)

Arguments

ol_app	An object that represents an Outlook application instance (class: class `COMIDispatch.`)
path_msg	a path to a '.msg' or '.eml' file (not checked for format)
show_message	if TRUE, show the message for editing after creation

Value

a COM object that binds to an e-mail window (`'Outlook.MailItem'`)

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Path to a sample .msg file
f <- system.file('data/sample.msg', package = 'outlookMailer')

con <- connect_outlook()
msg <- open_msg(con, path_msg = f, show_message = TRUE)

}