Body of email is ignored in Outlook - Solution code is potentially added in my post!

[kraakk001]

Dear reader,

I have stumbled upon an issue where the Outlook mail app, ignores the body that is set when tested on Android 7.0

I looked into the code for Android and I noticed that the type is only set when there are attachments to be send. According to this topic on stackoverflow the type is required when a body is set.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16500545/email-body-doesnt-show-when-using-an-intent

So there are 2 solutions I came up with:

1. Always call Intent.setType("message/rfc822");
2. Alter the method like this so the user can decide to add it's required type:

Intent getDraftWithProperties (JSONObject params, Context ctx) throws JSONException {

    Intent mail = getEmailIntent();
    String app  = params.optString("app", MAILTO_SCHEME);

    // Added code here to support type:
    if (params.has("type")){
		// Apply the type:
		mail.setType(params.getString("type");  
    }
    if (params.has("subject"))
        setSubject(params.getString("subject"), mail);
    if (params.has("body"))
        setBody(params.getString("body"), params.optBoolean("isHtml"), mail);
    if (params.has("to"))
        setRecipients(params.getJSONArray("to"), mail);
    if (params.has("cc"))
        setCcRecipients(params.getJSONArray("cc"), mail);
    if (params.has("bcc"))
        setBccRecipients(params.getJSONArray("bcc"), mail);
    if (params.has("attachments"))
        setAttachments(params.getJSONArray("attachments"), mail, ctx);

    if (!app.equals(MAILTO_SCHEME) && isAppInstalled(app, ctx)) {
        mail.setPackage(app);
    }

    return mail;
}

Please let me know if you can apply this change so I can maybe use it to resolve my issue with Outlook.
Since the body is filled in properly when using Gmail. But I can't know for certain the the users of my app will always use Gmail.

Thanks in advance!

Koen

[JScones]

Sorry to revive this, but I still don't seem to be able to get the body to work in Outlook on Android.

I'm testing on a device on Android 8.1.0, and other apps on the device are able to open an email in Outlook with the body filled.

If I choose gmail as the app to handle the email the body fills fine. Yet, if I choose outlook the email opens with all the fields filled as they should (To, CC, BCC, Attachments etc.) except the body is empty.

I have tried with and without attachments, setting ( and not setting ) type: 'message/rfc822' and nothing seems to work.

Using the example opens with no body

cordova.plugins.email.open({
    to:      'max@mustermann.de',
    cc:      'erika@mustermann.de',
    bcc:     ['john@doe.com', 'jane@doe.com'],
    subject: 'Greetings',
    body:    'How are you? Nice greetings from Leipzig'
});

and if I set type

cordova.plugins.email.open({
    to:      'max@mustermann.de',
    cc:      'erika@mustermann.de',
    bcc:     ['john@doe.com', 'jane@doe.com'],
    subject: 'Greetings',
    body:    'How are you? Nice greetings from Leipzig',
    type:    'message/rfc822'
});

it causes Android to say 'No apps to perform this action'.
Am I setting it correctly?

Would be awesome if someone else could confirm this is not working, or show me some example code that works?

[katzer]

Does setting isHtml:false change anything?

[JScones]

Yes! it works. I swear I tried that but thank you.

[kraakk001]

Glad to hear this enhancement has been added and that JSCones managed to get it to work for outlook to.
Big thumbs up!

[AncubateChand]

cordova.plugins.email.open({
to: 'max@mustermann.de',
cc: 'erika@mustermann.de',
bcc: ['john@doe.com', 'jane@doe.com'],
subject: 'Greetings',
body: 'How are you? Nice greetings from Leipzig',
isHtml: false,
type:'message/rfc822'
});

this is my code but it still give error of 'No apps to perform this action'.