Notifying users that an email has been handled.....?

[Harry]

Hi,
I am prograaming an addin for outlook 2007. I was hoping if you guys
could provide some insights into my problem.....bascially whn an email
is recieved by 2 or more people.....and one of them handles it(i.e
stores it in my local db...) how would i notify the other users that
the email has already been addded....? I could use a unique property
stored in the DB but i was wondering if there was any other way
avoiding DB calls...?
Thanks!

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You could send emails to the other recipients, but that would require manual
action on their parts to receive/read it and that before they tried to add
it to the database. It also wouldn't be doable for Bcc recipients.

If the emails all came in over the Internet then you could use the
PR_INTERNET_MESSAGE_ID property as a GUID for the message. You'd get that
with Outlook 2007's PropertyAccessor and the DASL property tag
"urn:schemas:mailheader:message-id" or using an alternate API such as
Redemption (www.dimastr.com/redemption) with the property tag 0x1035001E.
That could be stored as a column in the DB table as an ID column.

However, mails sent and received internally only within an Exchange
organization don't have that property of course, so that would require a
different approach.