From: baon <ning.bao@...>
Date: 2007-02-12T15:16:57+09:00
Subject: Win32OLE doesn't work with Outlook Express?

Hi there,

I am trying to retrieve some mails from my Outlook Express mail-box.

However, when using the 'WIN32OLE.connect('Outlook Express.Application')', I
will get the following error message:

WIN32OLERuntimeError: unknown OLE server: `Outlook Express.Application'
    HRESULT error code:0x800401f3
      Invalid class string
        from (irb):23:in `initialize'
        from (irb):23:in `new'
        from (irb):23

I have tried 'Outlook', 'Outlookexpress' with upper/lower case as well. It
doesn't work anyway.

It seems to me that WIN32OLE could support Outlook, but not Outlook Express.
Is that true?


If so, would you guys please give me some ideas on how to accomplish my task
of retrieving data from Outlook Express (*.dbx formats) using Ruby?

Regards and Thanks,
Bob