Open an email to take a screenshot of it

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Hello everyone,
I am little stuck with this issue.
I have a requirement to take a screenshot of the email from outlook and paste the screenshot in excel.
I am able to get the mail from outlook to my local folder in .eml format. but i am not sure how do I open the saved email from local to take a screenshot.
I tried open application activity and it does not work.
Any help is appreciated!

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Are you able to load Outlook with the email message as parameters? You may need to Google this.

You could then call it from Open Application or CMD/Powershell command…

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Thanks @richarddenton for your response.
presently what I am doing is
step 1 - use “Get outlook mail messages” activity to get top 5 outlook mails.
step 2 - using for each and saving each email in my local path with .eml extension.
step 3 - I need to open the emails saved in the local (which I am not able to do :frowning: ). I tried open application activity for it and it doesnt work. I get a “file doesnt exist” error

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I’m thinking something like this…from command line

“%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE” /eml “”

Searching on Google it looks like you may need to make some registry changes to allow the .eml files to open with Outlook.

@aksh1yadav any thoughts?

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Hey @Rashmi_N

Use "Start Process" Activity with following things:

FileName Property (Process) - “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE” // Mine is Outlook 2010 so replace it with your outlook version

Arguments - “/eml D:\Sample\new.eml”

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if you are facing such problem like you are opening it and it is not opening with outlook then you can try these steps :slight_smile:

Give it a try and let me know :slight_smile: as well

  1. Close Outlook Express if it is open
  2. Press ⊞+R.(Windows+R)
  3. Type msimn /reg and press ↵ Enter. This will reset the file associations for Outlook Express. EML files should now open in Express automatically when double-clicked.

Regards…!!
Aksh

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