>Is there a way to "read" outlook mail selectively using vfp9.
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>What i want to do: Clients send in completed form emails which can be targeted - for example a search for all emails with the subject title "ThisEm" or a search for emails with "ThisEm" in the message body.
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>Then collect each email content - which would be stored into a text file called emcontent.txt then processed before proceeding to the next email in the search chain.
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>I have found sample codes that seem to lean towards being able to do this but have not found one that works.
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>thanks
>k

Karen

This may or may not be of use to you - I have done a great deal of work over the years reading body of text information coming in from delivery agents and updating main databases - I have divided the process into 2 stages

1 I use a piece of software called Smartserver (now I think shareware) to get the email and break it into individual text files

2.I then use VFP9 to read the directory containing the text files - process them - and as individual files it's easy to search for key words or patterns - and move them to another directory

If this is of interest to you let me know and I'll send you more information

Colin