Associateing emails between Outlook and Access
Salad
your newsreader, one can easily see how message threads work and how
they find their position in a thread. Brilliant.
For personal emails in Outlook tho we got ruined by spammers and other
malicious people so it is very difficult to associate message threads.
Due to some unknown security reason MS decided implement the removal of
viewing any headers in the Sent folder. For the received emails Inbox
you can get the headers via code, I suppose, if you learn 3 or 4
technologies and using a rubber band and glue put something together.
If one has an older email program one can study the headers and see the
genius in how the emails work between sent and received emails; how you
can determine if an email was sent to a person, they forwarded it on to
another person, and that person responded. One could actually build an
accurate conversation thread between emails based on data in the headers.
Microsoft decided to combat this by providing us with conversation
threads based on the Subject line of an email. This method is of course
innacurate, prone to errors, and of minimal use.
Somehow Microsoft figured out in how to do email data collection in
A2007. You send out an email with fields to be filled in and when the
person responsds it updates the proper Access record with the data from
the email. It really doesn't matter what email client responds back to
the original email, it knows what record to update.
I have no idea why Microsoft has not provided us with the ability to
store an Outlook id in a table. To give us the ability to say "I want
to see all emails from Joe Blow regarding project 123" and voila,
there's the record set.
Its really nice MS is giving us the ability to do web apps in Access but
I don't understand why they can't give us some functionality for
something that already exists.
If anybody has heard of a seamless method for associating emails in
Outlook could your provide you knowledge?