Programming: Which API to use for programming Outlook Express 6 ?

KanGuru

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Dec 10, 2006, 5:11:12 PM12/10/06

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I'm using Outlook Express 6.
I would like to programmatically search the header
and the body part of all messages in a folder.
What API do I need to learn for this?

Jim Pickering AT

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Dec 10, 2006, 6:50:13 PM12/10/06

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You won't find much of anything that will help. MS has never realy been
open with publishing info about programming as it concerns Outlook Express
unlike Outlook in Office which is fairly easily programmed since there are
many published APIs. But, you can look here:

Windows Mail (formerly Outlook Express):
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709546.aspx

Most people who program for Outlook Express so it via trial and error. Good
luck.
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Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.

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KanGuru

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Dec 10, 2006, 10:38:24 PM12/10/06

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Thank you for the answer.
Unfortunately my project is bound to OE6.
Yes, the Windows Mail API is the right thing.
Do you know to which newsgroup questions regarding this API should be posted?

"Jim Pickering" <jimp (AT) mvps.org> wrote

Jim Pickering AT

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Dec 10, 2006, 11:05:36 PM12/10/06

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You could try the developers newsgroups, but most programmers for Outlook
Express have used the old "trial and error" method in the absence of
published info. And since most of them have a proprietary interest in the
software they've developed, you may well find that they are not willing to
divulge information that took them many hours, days and weeks of "hacking"
into the program to discover. Good luck.

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KanGuru

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Dec 11, 2006, 12:46:22 AM12/11/06

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I don't know if your answer is an official answer from Microsoft, but doubt it.
I said I'm going to use the latest/newest and documented API of Microsoft,
and you are telling me of some mysterious, hidden, undocumented secret crap!
Those times of secret APIs are long out, boy!
Nowadays, nobody should accept such a dumb policy!

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Gary S. Terhune

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Dec 11, 2006, 4:17:53 AM12/11/06

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Outlook Express is no modern app. It's essentially unchanged for at least 7
years, now, has always been a "throwaway" component of WIndows, and is also
obsolete as of this year.

Don't shoot the messenger, just because you don't like the message. No, it's
not the official MS line, it's just the truth. It takes a lot more money and
resources to create and document APIs, whixh is one reason MS hasn't
bothered to do so for OE (they'd also have to *support* them and the use
thereof), plus Microsoft has always done whatever they could to promote use
of the *paid* Microsoft Outlook instead of promoting anything that smacks of
a developer interface for OE.

Just what is "the latest/newest and documented API of Microsoft", anyway?
That sentence really makes no sense.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
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Steve Cochran

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Dec 11, 2006, 4:29:54 AM12/11/06

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The link Jim provided is all the information MS has published with respect
to OE. If you actually read some of what is under that link, you will see
its not just for Windows Mail, but for OE as well still.

That is all there is, so have fun.

steve

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