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MS Outlook VBA - When is a MailItem not a MailItem?

I have written a message handler function in Outlook's Visual Basic (we're using Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server) to help me sort out incoming email. It is working for me, except sometimes the rule fails and Outlook deactivates it. Then I turn the rule back on and manually run it on my Inbox to catch up. The rule spontaneously fails and...

What is the best library to parse a pst email archive? I looked for a file description but couldn't find anything on google.

I'm looking for a library, or some code to parse a pst file. Preferably in python. ...

How to find out the distinguished name of the information store to feed to IExchangeManageStore::GetMailboxTable?

There is a Microsoft knowledge base article with sample code to open all mailboxes in a given information store. It works so far (requires a bit of copy & pasting on compilers newer than VC++ 6.0). At one point it calls IExchangeManageStore::GetMailboxTable with the distinguished name of the information store. For the Exchange 2007 Tria...

Connecting Outlook 2007 to Domino 6.5 ?

Outlook (2007 now) is my favorite mail client and I would like to keep using it for both private and work emails. But with my new work, I discovered (with horror) that we have to use Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes 6.5 as client. Is it possible to get my Lotus mails inside Outlook while maintaining my private POP mails in their existing PS...

Using CreateItemFromTemplate to process an olEmbeddeditem Outlook attachment

I am using C# to process a message in my Outlook inbox that contains attachments. One of the attachments is of type olEmbeddeditem. I need to be able to process the contents of that attachment. From what I can tell I need to save the attachment to disk and use CreateItemFromTemplate which would return an object. The issue I have is...

Interacting with Outlook appointments using rails

Hi, I have a rails application running on a Linux server. I would like to interact with Outlook/Exchange 2003 appointments from the rails application. For example, certain actions should trigger sending an appointment, and then preferably accepting/canceling the appointment in Outlook should trigger events in the application. Failing t...

.NET: Get all Outlook calendar items

How can I get all items from a specific calendar (for a specific date). Lets say for instance that I have a calendar with a recurring item every Monday evening. When I request all items like this: CalendarItems = CalendarFolder.Items; CalendarItems.IncludeRecurrences = true; I only get 1 item... Is there an easy way to get all items...

Microsoft Event Calendar into webpage via vbscript

Hello all I have been asked to recreate a Micorsoft Events Calendar using the data within it (stores when people are off etc), onto a webpage using vbscript. It needs to only select the current day and display as a list. Does anyone know any ways? I am new to vbscript so any code examples would be great. Thanks for your help Cl...

How can I add pulldowns and checkboxes in a MS Outlook email?

I want to create a small survey in an email message. The user are to respond using free form text boxes, check boxes , or pre-defined drop downlist . I see applications that claim to be able to do that. my needs are not that elaborate. Just a few questions that need to be asked ...

Append Subject Header in Outlook (VBA)

Basically, we have a rule setup to run a script when a code word is detected in the body of an incoming message. The script will append the current subject header with a word in front. For example, Before: "Test Message", After: "Dept - Test Message". Any ideas? ...

Creating IDL for MAPI-MIME conversion.

I'm trying to create the IDL for the IConverterSession interface and I'm confused by the definition of the MIMETOMAPI method. It specifies the LPMESSAGE pmsg parameter as [out] yet the comments state its the pointer to the MAPI message to be loaded. Its unclear to me whether the functions allocates the MAPI message object and sets the p...

Consistently retrieve "From" email addresses across Outlook versions

I am working a standalone c# desktop application that sends out documents and then imports them from Outlook when they are sent back. The application picks up the emails from a specified folder processes them and then saves the senders name plus other stuff to a database. This works well for Outlook 2003 and 2007 which has the SenderEma...

how do I access exchange mailbox from asp.net web applicaion

I have the task of integrating a web application with MS Outlook Exchange account. I want to read the inbox items, send, reply and delete messages. Are there any good vb or c# examples out there? ...

What are some decent ways to prevent users from creating meeting workspaces?

I have an Events list in sharepoint and need to disallow users from having the ability to create meeting workspaces in the new event form. Shy of customizing the new event form (which breaks attachment support), how can this be done? ...

Remove Right Click Print Context Menu from Outlook

Is there any way that I can remove the Print item from the context menu when you right-click on an email with a Macro? I am forever right-clicking to reply to an email, only to accidentally click Print and have Outlook send it directly to the printer quicker than I can stop it. NB: I am using Outlook 2007. ...

Outlook Plug-In for custom CRM

I would like to write a plug-in that will allow a custom written CRM to read and write to their local Outlook client. I know that this poses a security concern. But, my clients are asking that their CRM "be connected" to Outlook. They would like to be able to do the following: A) When a contact sends them an email (reply or free stan...

Decipher Client-Side Rules binary definition for Microsoft Outlook

Outlook saves its client-side rules definition in a binary blob in a hidden message in the Inbox folder of the default store for a profile. The hidden message is named "Outlook Rules Organizer" with a message class "IPM.RuleOrganizer". The binary blob is saved in property 0x6802. The same binary blob is written to the exported RWZ file w...

Capture right-click'd text on Outlook Message Content

I'd like to know if it's possible to capture the text when a user right-click's on an Outlook message, and then add items to the right-click menu depending on the type of text. This is an example of what I'd like to do. If there's a message (mail item) with the following content: "Hello, please call me at 555-8474 regarding item A1234...

Embedded Outlook View Control

I am trying to make an Outlook 2003 add-in using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows XP SP3 and Internet Explorer 7. My add-in is using custom Folder Home Page which displays my custom form, which wraps Outlook View Control. I get COM Exception with 'Exception from HRESULT: 0xXXXXXXXX' description every time when I try to set Folder property...

Infopath doesn't render background colors/pictures w/ Outlook Task/Sharepoint

I am using Infopath forms to collect information to trigger my Windows Workflow sitting on Sharepoint 2007. The Infopath forms have logo's and branding which only show up on the Sharepoint portal but the infopath forms which are emailed when tasks are created during the workflow look different as in the background colors (Infopath Theme)...