c# winforms create email from outlook template file

Question

I am creating a mail using winforms like so:

private void CreateOutlookEmail(string addresses)
        {
            try
            {
                Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.Application();
                Outlook.MailItem mailItem = (Outlook.MailItem)outlookApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);
                mailItem.Subject = "This is the subject";
                mailItem.To = addresses;
                mailItem.Body = "This is the message.";
                mailItem.Importance = Outlook.OlImportance.olImportanceLow;
                mailItem.Display(false);
            }
            catch (Exception eX)
            {
                throw new Exception("cDocument: Error occurred trying to Create an Outlook Email"
                                    + Environment.NewLine + eX.Message);
            }
        }

Is it possible to actually insert the email addresses/subject into a saved outlook template (.oft file) from within a winforms app?

The OFT file would be somewhere in the root of the application.

Answer 1

Do you mean you need to modify an existing OFT file? You can do that using Redemption and its RDOSession .GetMessageFromMsgFile