Outlook Express

[Guest]

Hi all, I have a customer that has Outlook and Outlook Express installed on
thier PC's. I've written an app that sends emails and checks through the
inbox etc to progress thier orders. This works really well, unfortunatley
this works in Outlook (which I thought it was meant to be run in). They want
this to run in Outlook Express.

Does anyone know how I can make my app use thier Outlook express app and not
thier other Outlook app.

I've searched through the web and I can't find any references for me to use.

Any help would be greatley appritiated.

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

Outlook has the OLE automation ability thus making it programmable. This is
not true for Outlook Express. I had seen posts a couple of years ago about
this and it seemed to get stopped at that point.

LS

 

[Newbie Coder]

I agree with the last user about Outlook Express because I have wanted to
code for it a number of times & haven't had any success

 

[John]

You should be able to use simple MAPI to read
and send messages using OE. There are other programs
that can use OE, for example, ACT, so it is possible.

You can disable the sending security prompt on
the Security tab in Tools--Options.

J

 

[Newbie Coder]

Why do you want to use the old MAPI message object?

 

[John]

I have no desire to use the old MAPI message object.

I responded because it is one method that I know others
have used to read messages that are in OE, and send
messages through OE.

I suspect there are better ways to access the OE
message store, but I am not aware of them.

J