General, how to get started? [kwrds begin start newbie]

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Azvareth

Hi!

I am new here, my first post so I might post@wrong forum. Before my post I

searched for keywords in subject and find nothing.

Anyway, I use Outlook 2007, I use an IMAP (&pop) email account, on that

account I receive several mails, I am only intrested in some mails with a

certain sender with a certain special subject (is many diff subjects though),

sent mails with this subject is candidates for further processing, (parse out

customeer personal data).

I am doing this now with Delphi and Indy mail components + access, but I

wish to do some generic tool that smoothly could be transfeered between

different users.

And I come to think about Outlook, it is scriptable and thus should in

theory be able to do what I wish to accomplish. If so, do you people here

know where to start, what sites is the best for a VBA beginner and

specifically Outlook. (I searched the net but with very little information

results - or I have the wrong search query)
 
This is a correct support group for your post.

Dealing with IMAP items can be very weird if you don't actually download the

items completely from the server to the local storage.

The best place to start is at www.outlookcode.com. There's a wealth of

information there about everything related to Outlook programming.

If you want to deploy any code it's best to not use VBA. That's intended in

Outlook only for personal use or prototyping. In general the recommendation

is to develop COM addins for deployment. Delphi can be used to create

Outlook COM addins, as can C#/VB6/VB.NET or even C++.

"Azvareth" <Azvareth> wrote in message

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> Hi!

> I am new here, my first post so I might post@wrong forum. Before my post I
> searched for keywords in subject and find nothing.

> Anyway, I use Outlook 2007, I use an IMAP (&pop) email account, on that
> account I receive several mails, I am only intrested in some mails with a
> certain sender with a certain special subject (is many diff subjects
> though),
> sent mails with this subject is candidates for further processing, (parse
> out
> customeer personal data).

> I am doing this now with Delphi and Indy mail components + access, but I
> wish to do some generic tool that smoothly could be transfeered between
> different users.

> And I come to think about Outlook, it is scriptable and thus should in
> theory be able to do what I wish to accomplish. If so, do you people here
> know where to start, what sites is the best for a VBA beginner and
> specifically Outlook. (I searched the net but with very little information
> results - or I have the wrong search query)

>
 
Thank you, I will investigate everything I can before I decide which method

to use.

last question though, does this forum also handle questions when one access

Outlook with a third party aplication, I mean: using Delphi and then Outlook

com object to have control over outlook from delphi? ofcourse my question

only regards Outlook specific methods, properties, ... that will be exposed

to Delphi.
wrote:


> This is a correct support group for your post.

> Dealing with IMAP items can be very weird if you don't actually download the
> items completely from the server to the local storage.

> The best place to start is at www.outlookcode.com. There's a wealth of
> information there about everything related to Outlook programming.

> If you want to deploy any code it's best to not use VBA. That's intended in
> Outlook only for personal use or prototyping. In general the recommendation
> is to develop COM addins for deployment. Delphi can be used to create
> Outlook COM addins, as can C#/VB6/VB.NET or even C++.

> >

>

> "Azvareth" <Azvareth> wrote in message
> news:CDD92BF2-BDF8-4CED-9DF8-49FF719D6FFB@microsoft.com...
> > Hi!
> > I am new here, my first post so I might post@wrong forum. Before my post I
> > searched for keywords in subject and find nothing.
> > Anyway, I use Outlook 2007, I use an IMAP (&pop) email account, on that
> > account I receive several mails, I am only intrested in some mails with a
> > certain sender with a certain special subject (is many diff subjects
> > though),
> > sent mails with this subject is candidates for further processing, (parse
> > out
> > customeer personal data).
> > I am doing this now with Delphi and Indy mail components + access, but I
> > wish to do some generic tool that smoothly could be transfeered between
> > different users.
> > And I come to think about Outlook, it is scriptable and thus should in
> > theory be able to do what I wish to accomplish. If so, do you people here
> > know where to start, what sites is the best for a VBA beginner and
> > specifically Outlook. (I searched the net but with very little information
> > results - or I have the wrong search query)
> >


> .
>
 
Yes, this group is fine for questions like that.

"Azvareth" <Azvareth> wrote in message

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> Thank you, I will investigate everything I can before I decide which
> method
> to use.

> last question though, does this forum also handle questions when one
> access
> Outlook with a third party aplication, I mean: using Delphi and then
> Outlook
> com object to have control over outlook from delphi? ofcourse my question
> only regards Outlook specific methods, properties, ... that will be
> exposed
> to Delphi.
 
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