Question

I’m trying to extract the field BillingInformation from an Outlook .msg file using POI hsmf, but every time I get a ChunkNotFoundException. I’ve verified in Outlook that there is content in the field.

public class MessageReader {
    private static final int SUBJECT_CHUNK = 0x0037;
    private static final int BILLING_INFORMATION_CHUNK = 0x00008535;
    public static void main(String[] argv) {
        try {
            MAPIMessage mapiMessage = new MAPIMessage("MessageWithBillingInformation.msg");
            System.out.println(mapiMessage.getStringFromChunk(new StringChunk(SUBJECT_CHUNK, true)));
            System.out.println(mapiMessage.getStringFromChunk(new StringChunk(BILLING_INFORMATION_CHUNK, true)));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();  
        } catch (ChunkNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();  
        }
    }
}

All the documentation I’ve found lists 0x00008535 as the right ID for Billing Information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc765867.aspx

Thank you

Answer 1

Using a chunkID of 0x800A works for reading the Billing Information field, so the code looks like this:

public class MessageReader {
private static final int SUBJECT_CHUNK = 0x0037;
private static final int BILLING_INFORMATION_CHUNK = 0x800A;
public static void main(String[] argv) {
    try {
        MAPIMessage mapiMessage = new MAPIMessage("MessageWithBillingInformation.msg");
        System.out.println(mapiMessage.getStringFromChunk(new StringChunk(SUBJECT_CHUNK, true)));
        System.out.println(mapiMessage.getStringFromChunk(new StringChunk(BILLING_INFORMATION_CHUNK, true)));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();  
    } catch (ChunkNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();  
    }
}

}