Save embedded images from outlook in GIF format

Question

I am trying to use Outlook object in windows service to read mails from a inbox and then extracting embedded images. But mail can have any type of images embedded in it. Is there any easy method in outlook API where i can save all the embedded in GIF Format?

 if (newEmail.Attachments.Count > 0)
            {
                for (int i = 1; i <= newEmail
                   .Attachments.Count; i++)
                {
                    string value = newEmail.Attachments[i].PropertyAccessor.GetProperty("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001E");

                    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
                    {
                    newEmail.Attachments[i].SaveAsFile
                        (@"C:\TestFileSave\" +
                        newEmail.Attachments[i].FileName);
                    }
                }
            } 

Answer 1

You cannot use Outlook Object Model in a service. Why not create a COM addin.

You are also checking for the presence of the PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID property. Keep in mind that Content-ID MIME header can be set on any attachment, it is not necessarily an image, you'd need to check the HTML body for that.