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Openssl command line troubles

Edit: Haven't solved my problems, but I've moved on to new and more exciting problems. Leaving this here in case anyone has and insightful that'll help someone who stumbles on to this question in the future. Hi, I'm attempting to send an encrypted email from php to outlook. As such, I need to generate a certificate to import int...

Reinstall Outlook 2003 and use BCM2007, or any way to use BCM2003 on an exchange server?

Hi to all, I currently have Office 2007 with BCM installed on my new laptop, and it's getting annoying that Outlook 2007 seems to crash on a regular basis, which seems to be because I work from home and the data connection is unstable to the server. My two fold question is : a) Is there any way to use BCM2007 with an old version of Offi...

Japanese Encoding subject in Outlook 07

I am trying to read and process Japanese emails. I have set my regional and Language options to east asian and languages for non-unicode in the xp control pannel. I have to process pst files and preserve the true metadata and I am having trouble with the subject line and sometimes the to: and cc: fields. I get my message body to show Jap...

How can I add a new button to the navigation pane (outlook bar) in Outlook 2003/2007?

Most of us are familiar with the "accordion-style" navigation bar on the left side of Outlook 2003. It has buttons like Calendar, Tasks, Mail, etc, and clicking on one of those buttons opens up a browser pane with the list of common folders in that section. Using C++ or Delphi, I'd like to write a plugin that adds a new section to the ...

Doing email analysis for a postmortem (Exchange or IMAP)

I ended up doing some emergency PM stuff at work and I would like to post mortem my email to see who I was talking to and what I did wrong. I'm looking for suggestions on tools that would allow me to see the amount of email I was sending/receiving and perhaps see various statistics etc. Any suggestions? ...

Sending Outlook meeting requests without Outlook?

I just wonder if it is possible to send Meeting Requests to people without having Outlook installed on the Server and using COM Interop (which I want to avoid on a server at all costs). We have Exchange 2003 in a Windows 2003 Domain and all users are domain Users. I guess I can send 'round iCal/vCal or something, but I wonder if there i...

Reading an Outlook 2003 OST file

I need to recover the contents of an OST file from Outlook 2003. I don't need to do this so badly that I'm willing to pay the hundreds of dollars some companies charge for recovery utilities; I'm more interested in doing this from the intellectual challenge side of things. Are there any recommended libraries for doing this? I'd prefer so...

Why does the VBA Editor open on its own sometimes?

I've created a small script in Outlook 2003 VBA that watches for new appointments, and sets them to tentative and no reminder as I create them. However, I now find that seemingly at random, the VBA editor will open itself. It doesn't happen when I actually use the new script, but it did happen this morning when I un-hibernated my lapto...

Share outlook calendar from html

Is it possible to link to someone's outlook calendar (assuming you have priveleges to view it through outlook itself) from a web page? I am working on an intranet site and would like to provide a link to someone's calendar similar to: outlook:\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\Shared Calendar However, this is not a public calen...

Redemption - Find public folder

Using Redemption I need to put a draft email in a specific Public Folder. I know the full path of the folder but I can't work out how to get there using RDO. Eg. the folder path is "\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\XXXX\Drafts" I'm using Delphi2006 and Exchange 2007 but that shouldn't matter... oSession := CreateOleObject('Redempti...

Are there any PDA or Outlook Synch Frameworks out there?

We have a web application that deals with some common sales entities (Contacts, Appointments, Addresses, Notes etc..). We need to keep our app, outlook, and potentially any devices that they might have synchronized. Are there any frameworks that we can use that help us integrate with PDAs? Any thoughts or reccomendations are appreci...

Problem in releasing memory from an Outlook pst file

I am working on a win app which accesses the Outlook personal folders. Internally, it mounts the personal folder on the Outlook instance and processes the mails and then unmounts the pst. After unmounting the pst, I delete that file. Now the problem is that even after un mounting the pst and releasing memory, when I try to delete the ps...

MS Outlook CDO/MAPI Blocking Python File Output?

Here is an example of the problem I am running into. I am using the Python Win32 extensions to access an Outlook mailbox and retrieve messages. Below is a script that should write "hello world" to a text file. I need to grab some messages from an Outlook mailbox and I noticed something weird. After I attach to the mailbox once, I can...

Outlook Custom Form Region - show on button click

Hi All, I've created an Outlook 2007 add-in using VS.Net 2008. Added a Ribbon (Visual designer) with a button. I've added a custom form region with a messageclass of IPM.Appointment.MyWindow. How do I show the custom form region as soon as the user clicks on the button on the ribbon I've created? Thanks in advance! ...

Outlook custom task pane control

I'm developing an outlook addin that has a button in a custom task pane (thats in an inspector window). When its clicked, I'd like it to do something to the current active item (in my case, it's the appointmentItem). I've tried this (this code is in the custom task pane class): private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) ...

Is it possible to make Outlook to remember allowed programs?

This is somewhat related to How to avoid Outlook security alert when reading outlook message from C# program. I use MyPhoneExplorer to manage my cell phone, but whenever it syncs with Outlook I get that pesky message box every time. I am getting tired of both hunting down that checkbox / button combo and to answer the same thing over an...

How can I send an email from Java that will auto-expire in Outlook?

I am familiar with sending email from Java programs. Is it possible to configure the email so that Outlook will recognize that it should expire at a certain time? ...

ToUniversalTime() on a recurrence pattern in outlook addin?

I'm trying to get the UTC time of an appointmentItem RecurrencePattern object: Outlook.RecurrencePattern r = appt.GetRecurrencePattern(); String utcDate = r.StartTime.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"); MessageBox.Show(utcDate); Instead of the date I'm expecting (2009-02-05), I instead get 1899-12-30. I noticed the Microsoft hel...

Updating outlook plugin

We are developing an outlook plugin in VB 6.0. Now, what is the best way of applying updates? Rite now, we apply updates on outlook shutdown.Another way is, just disconnecting plugin and after applying updates, reconnect plugin(so no restart of outlook). ...

outlook add-in, slowing down outlook UI

I have written an outlook add-in to filter spam. The issue is that when the add-in is doing its job of processing a message, and especially with a large attachment that it is procesing / reading through, it is taking a lot of time and because of this the main outlook UI is un-responsive and users cannot do anything with the UI. Is there...