General, how to get started? [kwrds begin start newbie]

[Azvareth]

Hi!

I am new here, my first post so I might post@wrong forum. Before my post I
searched for keywords in subject and find nothing.

Anyway, I use Outlook 2007, I use an IMAP (&pop) email account, on that
account I receive several mails, I am only intrested in some mails with a
certain sender with a certain special subject (is many diff subjects though),
sent mails with this subject is candidates for further processing, (parse out
customeer personal data).

I am doing this now with Delphi and Indy mail components + access, but I
wish to do some generic tool that smoothly could be transfeered between
different users.

And I come to think about Outlook, it is scriptable and thus should in
theory be able to do what I wish to accomplish. If so, do you people here
know where to start, what sites is the best for a VBA beginner and
specifically Outlook. (I searched the net but with very little information
results - or I have the wrong search query)

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

This is a correct support group for your post.

Dealing with IMAP items can be very weird if you don't actually download the
items completely from the server to the local storage.

The best place to start is at www.outlookcode.com. There's a wealth of
information there about everything related to Outlook programming.

If you want to deploy any code it's best to not use VBA. That's intended in
Outlook only for personal use or prototyping. In general the recommendation
is to develop COM addins for deployment. Delphi can be used to create
Outlook COM addins, as can C#/VB6/VB.NET or even C++.

 

[Azvareth]

Thank you, I will investigate everything I can before I decide which method
to use.

last question though, does this forum also handle questions when one access
Outlook with a third party aplication, I mean: using Delphi and then Outlook
com object to have control over outlook from delphi? ofcourse my question
only regards Outlook specific methods, properties, ... that will be exposed
to Delphi.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Yes, this group is fine for questions like that.