Title: Outlook Automation - Scaning Outlook's Folders and reading Mail
Question: How to serf in Outlook from myself application and read Mail
Answer:
unit UScanOutlook;
interface
uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs,
StdCtrls, Grids, Outline;
const
olByValue = 1;
olByReference = 4;
olEmbeddedItem = 5;
olOLE = 6;
olMailItem = 0;
olAppointmentItem = 1;
olContactItem = 2;
olTaskItem = 3;
olJournalItem = 4;
olNoteItem = 5;
olPostItem = 6;
olFolderDeletedItems = 3;
olFolderOutbox = 4;
olFolderSentMail = 5;
olFolderInbox = 6;
olFolderCalendar = 9;
olFolderContacts = 10;
olFolderJournal = 11;
olFolderNotes = 12;
olFolderTasks = 13;
type
TItem = class(TObject)
Letter:OleVariant;
name:string;
end;
TForm1 = class(TForm)
oline_outlook: TOutline;
Button8: TButton;
procedure Button8Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure oline_outlookDblClick(Sender: TObject);
procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
procedure FormCloseQuery(Sender: TObject; var CanClose: Boolean);
private
{ Private declarations }
public
{ Public declarations }
OlApp,NameSpace,root:OleVariant;
List:Tlist;
Item:TItem;
icount:integer;
end;
var
Form1: TForm1;
implementation
uses ComObj;
{$R *.DFM}
procedure TForm1.Button8Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure scan(ol:TOutline;root:OleVariant;s:string);
var i,j,k:integer;
bcount,rcount:integer;
branch,MAPIFolder:olevariant;
line:string;
begin
line:='';
rcount:=root.count;
for i:=1 to rcount do begin
line:=s+root.item[i].name;
ol.Lines.Add(line);
List.Add(TItem.Create);
Item:=List.items[List.count-1];
Item.name:='Folder';
branch:=root.item[i].folders;
bcount:=branch.count;
MAPIFolder:=Namespace.GetFolderFromId(root.item[i].EntryID,root.item[i].StoreID);
if MAPIFolder.Items.count0 then
for j:=1 to MAPIFolder.Items.count do begin
ol.Lines.Add(s+' '+MAPIFolder.Items[j].subject);
List.Add(TItem.Create);
Item:=List.items[List.count-1];
Item.name:='File';
Item.Letter:=MAPIFolder.Items[j];
end;
if bcount0 then begin
scan(ol,branch,s+' ');
end;
end;
end;
begin
oline_outlook.Lines.Clear;
OlApp:=CreateOleObject('Outlook.Application');
Namespace:=OlApp.GetNameSpace('MAPI');
root:=Namespace.folders;
scan(oline_outlook,root,'');
end;
procedure TForm1.oline_outlookDblClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
Item:=List.items[oline_outlook.SelectedItem-1];
if Item.name='File' then ShowMessage(Item.Letter.Body);
end;
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
List:=TList.Create;
Item:=TItem.Create;
icount:=0;
end;
procedure TForm1.FormCloseQuery(Sender: TObject; var CanClose: Boolean);
var i:integer;
begin
for i:=List.Count-1 downto 0 do begin
Item:=List.Items[i];
Item.Free;
end;
List.Free;
end;
end.