From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T00:29:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeking win32ole CDO/Mapi help

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On 3/28/06, Keith Sader <ksader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to read a remote mail store using the CDO OLE interface
> using the ProfileInfo interface as described here:
> http://www.vbip.com/books/1861002068/chapter_2068_04.asp, but I've run
> into the wall of my own ignorance.
>
> Here's what I have so far:
>
> # Ruby code
> require 'win32ole'
>
> mapiSession =3D WIN32OLE::new('MAPI.Session')
>
> #load MAPI constants
> class MapiConst
> end
> WIN32OLE.const_load(mapiSession, MapiConst)
>
> exchangeServer =3D 'myServer
> mailbox =3D 'mail@foo.com'
> logonParam =3D "ProfileInfo:=3D"+ exchangeServer + "\r" + mailbox
> mapiSession.Logon(logonParam)
> # the rest of the code...
>
> However the Logon method throws the following set of exceptions.
>
> First I get a pop-up dialog stating that the Profile Name contains
> invalid characters.
>
> From the above link: "The ProfileInfo is a string that consists of
> three parts. The first is the name of the Exchange Server. The second
> is always a linefeed character."
>
> I think part of my problem is I'm not getting the correct character in
> as the linefeed.  Can someone validate that?  Maybe I'm missing and
> easy Ruby trick to add a linefeed to a string?


I believe linefeed is \n and \r is carriage return.


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