Odd <end> tag on message view Outlook 2013 Microsoft Office Interop

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I'm using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook, VB.net and Office 2013 to generate a MailItem, and then send the item to Outlook, show the email window and let the user edit it/send it from Outlook 2013. The main things I'm doing are:

I create the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem object and fill it with the relevant information, I generate an HTML constant for the body like this

Private Const mstrHTML_FORMAT As String = "<html><p style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;'>{0}</p></html>"

Then I add the text I want to a string variable strBody and use String.Format to insert the text in the HTMLBody of my object:

objMailItem.HTMLBody = String.Format(mstrHTML_FORMAT, strBody)

I also change the format of the body to HTML:

 objMailItem.BodyFormat = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML

After a few other steps I send it to the view

objMailItem.Display(True)

My problem is, when the user sends the email, the receiver will see that the email has a message with the subject as Text

any clue of why this happens?

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1 Answers

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It's an Outlook "feature". Outlook purposely puts <end> in the message preview when the body isn't long enough to fill the preview.

It's not caused by your code or any bad HTML formatting.