Automate Any Email Client
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From: atif on 28 Jul 2008 01:51 Hi, I want to automate any email client running on Windows and save the generated email in as Draft. I was trying to use MAPI control with VB6 but when i save it gives "Unspecified Failure has occured" The case is same with COM MAPI objects (CreateObject("MSMAPI.MAPIMessages")) And one more thing is Send method works fine on my PC but it gives "ActiveX Component can't create object" on client machine, i have verified required files with Dependency Walker, both machines are showing same result. The Client has Microsoft Outlook as a default and i have Outlook Express as default. However, my intention is 1- Automate any email client (without any dependency on email Server) 2- Save the message as Draft Kindly suggest a solution to achieve this
From: mayayana on 28 Jul 2008 08:51 You can't automate "any" email program. If you want to send email without needing an email program you can do it directly. Search for vbSendMail for a DLL, or see here for dependency-free, all-VB code: www.jsware.net/jsware/vbcode.php5#mail > 1- Automate any email client (without any dependency on email Server) The links above provide alternatives to email software. That's not the same as an email server. If you mean that you don't want be required to contact an SMTP server (the outgoing mail server, such as smtp.someisp.com) then you have to also somehow provide/write your own SMTP server.
From: atif on 28 Jul 2008 09:14 On Jul 28, 6:51 pm, "mayayana" <mayaXXy...(a)rcXXn.com> wrote: > If you mean that you don't want be > required to contact an SMTP server (the outgoing > mail server, such as smtp.someisp.com) then you > have to also somehow provide/write your own SMTP > server. Thanks for your reply I don't mean writing my own SMTP server, i mean whatever the server is i don't need to change my code/whatever to support a specific server.. And by the way, I don't want to send email via SMTP because as per my knowledge, the email sent will not be seen by the email client of end user. And most importantly, i don't want to send the email i just want to Save it as Draft which means automate client's default email software (Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, etc).
From: Dean Earley on 28 Jul 2008 09:53 atif wrote: > On Jul 28, 6:51 pm, "mayayana" <mayaXXy...(a)rcXXn.com> wrote: >> If you mean that you don't want be >> required to contact an SMTP server (the outgoing >> mail server, such as smtp.someisp.com) then you >> have to also somehow provide/write your own SMTP >> server. > > Thanks for your reply > > I don't mean writing my own SMTP server, i mean whatever the server is > i don't need to change my code/whatever to support a specific server.. > > And by the way, I don't want to send email via SMTP because as per my > knowledge, the email sent will not be seen by the email client of end > user. And most importantly, i don't want to send the email i just want > to Save it as Draft which means automate client's default email > software (Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, etc). You will have to find a way of automating each one individually. There is no standard method of access the folder structure (and may not even exist in some cases) -- Dean Earley (dean.earley(a)icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team iCode Systems
From: expvb on 28 Jul 2008 12:13
As others suggested, there is no standard way of automating all email clients. Outlook is the easiest because it has an automation model. MAPI can be used with Outlook and Outlook Express, it will get the messages from the one that you made the default email program. If you have thousands of messages in your Inbox, when you use Fetch method; it could take few minutes and CPU usage spikes to 100%. To avoid this, move most of the messages to a custom folder, or use FetchUnreadOnly property to reduce the number of messages. I am not sure if this can be sped up using the API. This also depends on the intended usage. Another option for OE, is to write an EML file, then open it with ShellExecute. This opens a window with the email text, but does not send it, unless you send keystrokes(Alt+s) using PostMessage or Sendkeys. See this VB6 sample and related samples: http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/internet/shellexecutelargeemail.htm |