Microsoft Access

[Bart via AccessMonster.com]

What will happen if I check my emain in Microsoft Acess 15 years from now?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

??? What are you talking about?

 

[Bart via AccessMonster.com]

What I mean is, will Microsoft Access stil be around 15 years from now, or
will their be a different Email System then?

 

[martdi]

I think Bart is talking about Microsoft Outlook... emain must be a
typing error for email.

Bart, Microsoft Access is for databases so your question doesn't really
make sense if it is really about e-mails.

 

[John Vinson]

What will happen if I check my emain in Microsoft Acess 15 years from now?

Please tell us what the stock price for Microsoft, Sun Microsystems,
and Apple (or their successors) will be in 2021, and we'll let you
know. <g>

You can't check your EMail with Microsoft Access now. I think you may
be thinking of a different program, Microsoft Outlook. And it might be
interesting to do a little reading about how EMail was handled in
1991. Software DOES change.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[Bart via AccessMonster.com]

The way I see it, Since Microsoft Office programs and Microsoft Access and
Emails are all connected, you can store the emails inside the Microsoft
Access Database, and retreive them later , say, 15 years from now, if you
want. I can create a timer on my form that will pop up the email messages
in 15 years, if I want. I can start a macro that will ipmort all them emails
from Microsoft into my databse if I want, into fifteen years.

HTH

 

[martdi]

Then I guess it depends on how you save you e-mails in your database.

The easiest solution i think is to make a vbscript macro in outlook to
save the e-mails in a plain text file

Then, in access, you make a script to import the e-mails and save them
into your database. This way, even if outlook changes, you will still
be able to read your mails back. Also, if outlook changes, you only
have to adapt your script to save the e-mails in the correct format.

I have never done any vba in outlook so I am not 100% sure it is
possible, but it probably is.

 

[David F Cox]

CSV format will almost certainly be around in in 15 years, if that format
will do what you want.