>Hi Tamar,
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>>Automating Outlook makes this easy.
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>Actually there is nothing easy to it. What would be more easy to have read from outlook through SQL and retrieve the result in XML or so. Even an ODBC driver would be fine.
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>I really don't understand why Microsoft does not step away from their propetary outlook database.

Every application wants to be a database once it grows up. Outlook, very much so.

The speed (or rather, lack thereof) of searches within Outlook is about 10th reason (by order of importance) why I never use it, unless forced.