Outlook send mail via COM with user settings - delphi

Question

I have a working application that can access Outlook via COM and send, save or show emails I create inside this app.
What I want is all the settings of the account in Outlook getting applied on my mail too, so this means which mail-type (text, html or rich), custom fonts, signatures, and so on.
here a SSCCE (the the rest of the code is just some logging, and the form only contains the most neccessary controls):
...
strict private
FOutlook: _Application;
...
procedure TMainForm.ShowMailDlg(aModal: Boolean);
var
mail: _MailItem;
begin
Connect();
mail := FOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem) as _MailItem;
mail.Recipients.Add(Trim(EdTo.Text));
mail.CC := Trim(EdCc.Text);
mail.Subject := Trim(EdSubject.Text);
mail.Body := EmailText.Lines.Text;
mail.SendUsingAccount := GetAccountForEmailAddress(Trim(EdFrom.Text));
//mail.Attachments.Add('Path1', olByValue, 1, 'Caption1');
//mail.Attachments.Add('Path2', olByValue, 2, 'Caption2');
mail.Display(aModal);
end;
procedure TMainForm.Connect;
begin
FOutlook := CreateOleObject('Outlook.Application') as _Application;
end;
function TMainForm.GetAccountForEmailAddress(const aSmtp: string): _Account;
var
accounts: _Accounts;
account: _Account;
i: Integer;
begin
accounts := FOutlook.Session.Accounts;
for i := 1 to accounts.Count do begin
account := accounts.Item(i);
if LowerCase(account.SmtpAddress) = LowerCase(aSmtp) then begin
Result := account;
Exit;
end;
end;
raise Exception.Create('No Account with SMTP address ' + aSmtp + ' found!');
end;
How can I get the MailItem to use all formatting-options from the chosen account?

Answer 1

I still haven't found a real solution, but here is a workaround.
The trick is to use the CreateItemFromTemplate-method, where your template contains all the settings. Oviously the user is required to create a template for this purpose, but it's a one-time-action which shoulnd't be too hard.
procedure TMainForm.DoMailAction(aAction: TMailAction);
var
mail: _MailItem;
folder: OleVariant;
begin
Connect();
folder := FOutlook.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderDrafts);
mail := FOutlook.CreateItemFromTemplate('C:\\Users\\fkoch\\default.oft', folder) as _MailItem;
...
Additionally, the selected folder "Drafts" causes the signature getting attached to the mailbody, as long as the mailItem is manually send by the user in the mail-dialog (mail.display(False)). This doesn't happen when directly processed via mail.send() or mail.save().

Answer 2

I've found the solution now. I'v set the body the wrong way, thats why it didn't work.
procedure CreateMail(aMailInfo.TMailInfo)
var
...
insp: _Inspector;
editor: OleVariant;
begin
FMailItem := FOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem) as _MailItem;
...
insp := FMailItem.GetInspector;
if (insp.EditorType = olEditorWord) then begin
editor := insp.WordEditor;
editor.Characters.item(1).InsertBefore(mailText);
end else begin
if FMailItem.BodyFormat = olFormatHTML then begin
regex := TRegEx.Create(cReplaceNewline);
FMailItem.HTMLBody := regex.Replace(mailText, '<br />');
end else
FMailItem.Body := mailText;
end;
...
end;