Unique ID of an email? or how to identify them?

[DraguVaso]

Hi,

I once saw a fax-application that puts faxes as email in a pst-file, sends
the ID of that email to a user, and than an application opens that specific
email/fax on the screen of the user.

I also would like to be able for my application to identify emails uniquely:
where should I find this unique ID? Or is it based on other stuff like The
sender and time of reception?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Pieter

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Pieter,

For every unique ID is the Guid
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemguidclasstopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[DraguVaso]

Thanks, but this isn't linked at all at an email,

what I need is to be able to identify each email in a pst-file with a unique
id... So is there such an ID for each mail aklreaddy when it arrives in
outlook?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I once saw a fax-application that puts faxes as email in a pst-file, sends
the ID of that email to a user, and than an application opens that
specific
email/fax on the screen of the user.

I also would like to be able for my application to identify emails
uniquely:
where should I find this unique ID? Or is it based on other stuff like The
sender and time of reception?

Maybe the email's 'Message-ID' field is what you want.

 

[DraguVaso]

Hm yes something like that.
I foundalso something about "EntryID", which should also be some kind of ID,
and seems to be in the outlook object-model.
Should it be better to use the EntryID? Is it also unique?

What I actually need is to store that ID (Message-ID or EntryID or whatever)
in a database, and than when the users that have access to the public *.pst
are able to find that Emil in the pst with the ID...

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I foundalso something about "EntryID", which should also be some kind of
ID,
and seems to be in the outlook object-model.
Should it be better to use the EntryID? Is it also unique?

What I actually need is to store that ID (Message-ID or EntryID or
whatever)
in a database, and than when the users that have access to the public
*.pst
are able to find that Emil in the pst with the ID...

I feel sorry, but I am not familiar with the Outlook object model... I was
referring to a header field of an email message.

 

[DraguVaso]

thanks for the help anyway!
I think i found my answer here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;201074