C++ API to Export EMAIL to RTF
Transform EMAIL to RTF within C++ application without requiring Microsoft Word or Outlook
Why to Convert
As a C++ developer, you may need to add email conversion features inside your applications. Email conversion is a process of transforming emails from one format to another. This process is useful for archiving emails, migrating emails from one platform to another, or for creating backups.
How Aspose.Total Helps for Email to RTF Conversion
Aspose.Total for C++ is a comprehensive suite of APIs that enables developers to create, manipulate, and convert various file formats. It includes Aspose.Email for C++ and Aspose.Words for C++. Aspose.Email for C++ allows you to convert EMAIL file format to HTML. After that, Aspose.Words for C++ API can be used to export HTML to RTF. This way, you can easily convert emails to RTF format. Aspose.Total for C++ also provides other features such as creating, reading, and manipulating Outlook PST files, creating and manipulating Microsoft Word documents, and creating and manipulating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It also provides features for manipulating PDF documents, images, and barcodes.
C++ API to Convert EMAIL to RTF
- Open EMAIL file using MailMessage class reference
- Convert EMAIL to HTML by using Save member function
- Load HTML by using Document class
- Save the document to RTF format using Save method and set Rtf as SaveFormat
Get Started with C++ File Format APIs
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// load the EMAIL file to be converted
System::SharedPtr<MailMessage> msg = MailMessage::Load(u"sourceFile.msg");
// save EMAIL as a HTML
msg->Save(u"HtmlOutput.html", SaveOptions::get_DefaultHtml());
// load HTML with an instance of Document
System::SharedPtr<Document> doc = System::MakeObject<Document>(u"HtmlOutput.html");
// call save method while passing Rtf as save format
doc->Save(u"convertedFile.Rtf");
Parse EMAIL File via C++
Not only you can convert your EMAIL to RTF, but you can read, manipulate, and parse EMAIL document. You can get subject, address, body, recipients information of the email by using MapiMessage class of Aspose.Email for C++ API. For example, you can check for a specific sender email for the conversion by using get_SenderEmailAddress() property.
// create an instance of MapiMessage from file
System::SharedPtr<MapiMessage> msg = MapiMessage::FromFile(dataDir + L"message.msg");
// get subject
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"Subject:") + msg->get_Subject());
// get from address
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"From:") + msg->get_SenderEmailAddress());
// get body
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"Body") + msg->get_Body());
// get recipients information
System::Console::WriteLine(System::String(L"Recipient: ") + msg->get_Recipients());
C++ API to Restrict RTF File Format Editing
You can also add document protection features in your app while exporting the document from EMAIL to RTF. Adding protection to your document is a simple process, as all you need to do is apply the protection method to your document. You can set protection type to ReadOnly to restrict the user to edit the document.
// create a new document and protect it with a password.
auto doc = System::MakeObject<Document>();
// apply Document Protection.
doc->Protect(ProtectionType::ReadOnly, u"password");
// save the document.
doc->Save(u"DocumentProtection.PasswordProtection.Rtf");