Hi£¬everybody!
I am write a program to geather infomation in outlook express 6.
The infomation I want to retreive is the mail content and the folder it
belongs. And the contact infomation is the info I want to get too.
Does any one know which tech I should to be used. If this is not the
place to discuss the problem like this, can you give me the group name about
it?

Thanks.
Daniel Pan

"daniel pan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I am write a program to geather infomation in outlook express 6.
> The infomation I want to retreive is the mail content and the
> folder it
> belongs. And the contact infomation is the info I want to get too.
> Does any one know which tech I should to be used. If this is not
> the
> place to discuss the problem like this, can you give me the group name
> about it?

There's no official APIs for Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q216281/

Note that there _is_ some documentation in MSDN, but it's not useful
documentation, as far as I know it's only there because of the
"Microsoft has secret APIs" lawsuit a while ago.

If you google for "oe5dbx", that's a thing someone wrote to get at the
contents of DBX files, though the main site is dead now so you'll have
to either look in archive.org or find a mirror.

Contacts live in the address book, I think. See the documentation for
"Windows Address Book" in MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
url=/workshop/wab/wabentry.asp

-- dan

Dan Mitchell <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:Xns96AD61AE7593Ddjmitchellayahoocom@207.46.248.16:
> Note that there _is_ some documentation in MSDN, but it's not useful
> documentation, as far as I know it's only there because of the
> "Microsoft has secret APIs" lawsuit a while ago.

Correction, I'm wrong -- there is documentation there now, and while it's
just reference, it looks as if there's enough there to do most things:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l=/library/en-
us/outlookexpress/oe/reference/ifaces/istorenamespace/initialize.asp

-- dan

Actually, if you look closely at the docs that start at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...e/oe_entry.asp, you'll see that many of the interfaces are listed as deprecated or "Not currently supported."

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"Dan Mitchell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:Xns96AD705977A80djmitchellayahoocom@207.46.248.16...
> Dan Mitchell <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:Xns96AD61AE7593Ddjmitchellayahoocom@207.46.248.16:
>> Note that there _is_ some documentation in MSDN, but it's not useful
>> documentation, as far as I know it's only there because of the
>> "Microsoft has secret APIs" lawsuit a while ago.
>
> Correction, I'm wrong -- there is documentation there now, and while it's
> just reference, it looks as if there's enough there to do most things:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...initialize.asp
>
> -- dan

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:exh#(E-Mail Removed):

> Actually, if you look closely at the docs that start at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...e/oe_entry.asp,
> you'll see that many of the interfaces are listed as deprecated or
> "Not currently supported."

Yeah, a lot of them aren't there, and there's not really much of a guide
as to how to do it -- that said, after a few minutes looking through the
docs, I reckon you should be able to start OE and get to a message with:

1. CoCreateInstance an IStoreNamespace
2. IStoreNamespace::Initialize() on that
3. IStoreNamespace::OpenFolder
4. IStoreFolder::GetFirstMessage/GetNextMessage
5. Use the MESSAGEID from that to IStoreFolder::OpenMessage
6. Now you have an IMimeMessage that you can poke around at;
GetTextBody/whatever.

-- dan