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Pulling messages off Exchange server
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18/03/2005 10:40:23
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
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Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00997260
Message ID:
00997650
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>- CDO - this again hooks into Outlook somehow, or presents a dialog

CDO 1.21 did hook into Outlook (Or MAPI), but CDO 2.0 does not and does not present the dialog box.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncdsys/html/cdo_roadmap.asp

>This is about Fedex tracking - they are sending automated emails whenever a shipment is sent (i.e. scanned on departure) or delivered. I want to write an application which will just read these emails, extract data from messages (which are, luckily, plain text) and store them in a DBF.
>I've tried several approaches:
>
>- Outlook - no way, too much security hassle, this needs to work unattended
>- CDO - this again hooks into Outlook somehow, or presents a dialog
>- MAPI - turns out to be another way to invoke some Outlook object, dialog again
>- webmail via an IE object, parsing the HTML - this is the most promising so far, but it detects inactivity (!) and requires a login after each few pages. The login can be automated, though, and maybe in the end that's what I may end up doing, if more elegant approaches fail.
>- ADSI - the documentation is so labyrinthine, whatever I look for gives me a new way to look for printers, users and their rights.
>
>So, is there a way to do some sort of SQL-like select from Exchange server's messages, for a given user and time interval? If so, what would be the format of the recordset? ADO RS, I presume, or XML?
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