Working with Outlook Notes

Create, Save and Read Outlook Notes

Aspose.Email provides the facility to create Outlook notes and save to disk in MSG format. The MapiNote class provides properties and methods to set the desired information for a note. This article shows how to create, save and read a MapiNote from the disk.

Create and Save Outlook Note

The following steps can be used to create and save a note to disk.

1. Instantiate an object of the MapiNote class.
2. Set various properties as desired.
3. Save the note to disk as an MSG file.  

   // For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-email/Aspose.Email-for-Java
   MapiNote note3 = new MapiNote();
   note3.setSubject("Blue color note");
   note3.setBody("This is a blue color note");
   note3.setColor(NoteColor.Blue);
   note3.setHeight(500);
   note3.setWidth(500);
   note3.save(dataDir + "MapiNote_out.msg", NoteSaveFormat.Msg);

Read a MapiNote

The MapiNote class object is used to cast the MapiMessage object that loads a note from disk in MSG format.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-email/Aspose.Email-for-Java
MapiMessage note = MapiMessage.fromFile(dataDir + "MapiNote_out.msg");
MapiNote note2 = (MapiNote) note.toMapiMessageItem();