From: Jeff Miller <loadeddesigns@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T09:21:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Outlook, MAPI, Sending Mail

Jade Tucker wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
Hey there,
 I had to develop an application that had to interact with Outlook quite 
a bit - however, I recommend that you use MAPI/CDO via the Exchange side 
rather than through client-side outlook, since you have less 
dependencies and a less likely chance of it breaking. Check out some VB 
examples from CDOlive.com and outlookcode.com . There is great help 
there.

Good luck,
 - Jeff Miller

> I am trying to write a program to test that our email servers are
> working properly.
> 
> I have a ruby program to send an email from a MS Outlook inbox connected
> to an exchange mail server.  The program using WIN32OLE to connect to
> Outlook.  The program sends an email to another email account (out of
> our network) that is setup to automatically send back the email.  My
> program then waits for the email to return for a max of 5 minutes before
> it will fail.
> 
> The first issue I encountered was Outlook poping up a dialog box warning
> me that a program was trying to send an email on my behalf.  With
> Outlook 2007 I was able to disable this security restriction.
> 
> This program needs to run on a server without anyone logged in.  For
> some reason this is not working as a scheduled task set to run under the
> user the email account is setup for.
> 
> I am looking for any help or advice on how to get this working.  I am
> getting frustrated with developing applications that run fine normaly,
> but as soon as I try to run them on a schedule or invoked remotely they
> start breaking.
> 
> Does anyone know of a better way to do this or can help me with my
> problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> JT

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