Open email using outlook mapi url

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I queried the windows search service and got back a url in the System.ItemUrl property that reads something like this

mapi15://{S-1-5-21-1517436256-507059763-2860835189-1002}/...

Now I need to open that url in outlook. I tried Process.Start(url) in c#, but that popped out this message.

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Is there a way to open mapi urls returned from windows search service? I am using windows 8.1 and outlook 2013. I also looked at this post, but that didn't solve my problem.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2400223/open-mails-in-outlook-from-java-using-the-protocol-mapi its in java but it should be relatively easy to conver to c# — Mo Patel, Sep 11 '14 at 16:10
This post describes a problem in java that doesn't use utf16. I am using c# which uses utf16 by default for strings. The error I get when running cmd /C "mapi://..." is 'mapi15:' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. — tcb, Sep 11 '14 at 16:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '14 at 17:28

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Looks like this feature was removed in Office15. This thread has some discussion on the issue.

answered Sep 11 '14 at 17:28

tcb

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 08 '15 at 19:03

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Change mapi15 to mapi in the url:

mapi://{S-1-5-21-1517436256-507059763-2860835189-1002}/...

edited May 08 '15 at 19:03

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answered May 08 '15 at 18:30

Robert Schmid

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