Drag and Drop Email from MS Outlook to Eclipse RCP

Question

Does anyone have a working solution without any Java / COM bridge? For instance. process email as a file (.msg) and not find the data referenced in the clipboard?

Answer 1

Perhaps this is the solution to your problem: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaoutlookdd/ It allows you to handle Outlook objects, such as File objects, while dragging and dropping.

Answer 2

A few years ago, I improved a bit using the Apache POI to extract message contents from .msg files. I am sure that they have a simple swing explorer / viewer that you can use to study the structure in the format of a composite document, but I cannot find it right now.

I managed to extract most of the information that interested me, but in the end she wanted to create a version of the message in mime format and could not extract all the information I needed in a format that I could use.

Answer 3

I assume that you have already excluded the tools in "org.eclipse.swt.dnd" for some reason? The following are examples of how to use them if you haven’t. If what you really want to do is drag & drop, you will have to work a bit with these tools. At this point, the real question is what format it is on the clipboard, as well as in the file, and which is easier to integrate into your application.