Case study

Outlook drag and drop: decoding RenPrivateMessages clipboard data

The Outlook drag-and-drop investigation decodes the RenPrivateMessages OLE clipboard stream to recover identifiers of the original Outlook message. It records field lengths, MAPI folder and store IDs, message class, subject and entry ID, with a C# WPF example that reads the data.

Targets: App · Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 4
Last commit: 2022-02-15
Language: C#
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Microsoft Outlook drag-and-drop data and a Windows WPF environment are required for the example.
Limits: The author reports testing only with Outlook 2013; several bytes remain unidentified.
License: MIT.

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BibTeX

@misc{outlook-dnd-protocol-case,
  title = {{Outlook drag and drop: decoding RenPrivateMessages clipboard data}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/yasoonOfficial/outlook-dndprotocol}},
  url = {https://github.com/yasoonOfficial/outlook-dndprotocol},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/outlook-dnd-protocol-case/}}
}

Plain text

Outlook drag and drop: decoding RenPrivateMessages clipboard data. https://github.com/yasoonOfficial/outlook-dndprotocol (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/outlook-dnd-protocol-case/

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README.md GitHub · yasoonOfficial/outlook-dndprotocol · Revision 45d2b9d