Outlook Express API

[Ulf Lövgren]

Hi.

We are developing a software that integrates with Outlook Express and are
currently hooking into Outlook Express to add functionality.

This however has proven difficult to implement and we are experiencing
instability problems.

We now concider replacing whatever can be replaced with functionality from
the Outlook Express API and we have a few questions:

1. What are the future plans for the OE API (Seeing that many interfaces of
the OE API are noted as deprected). Is it going to be discontinued?

2. Is there any way of using the OE API with OE 6.0 on Win2000?

3. Is there any resources or documentation on the OP API (apart from MSDN) ?



Thanks for your concern

Best regards

UIf Lövgren - General Wireless

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Ask in an Outlook Express forum. This is an Microsoft Office Outlook forum.

Outlook Express is family of Internet Explorer and Outlook of the Office
family.

Here is the link for the right forum
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

Good Luck!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

 

[Dan Mitchell]

1. What are the future plans for the OE API (Seeing that many
interfaces of the OE API are noted as deprected). Is it going to be
discontinued?

2. Is there any way of using the OE API with OE 6.0 on Win2000?

3. Is there any resources or documentation on the OP API (apart from
MSDN) ?

There is no OE API. There's some COM interfaces that are accidentally
exposed, and there's some stuff in MSDN that, as far as anyone knows, is
only there because of the legal case against MS a while back where they
were obliged to publish more of their internal interfaces -- so they
published them, but they didn't publish anything _useful_ about them.

Officially, there's Simple MAPI and nothing else. In practise, there's
also the oedbx stuff about reverse-engineering the format of DBX files,
and there's also the usual tricks with sending window messages directly
to OE to manipulate it that way, but there's no APIs for working with it
properly.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q216281/ for more; that applies to
OE6 as well as OE5.

-- dan

 

[Sebastian Wain]

Hi,

I would like to point you to our Nektra's Outlook Express API, where
you can download the sample at:
http://www.nektra.com/products/oeapi/download.html and see some magic



Regards,
Sebastian Wain

 

[Dan Mitchell]

(e-mail address removed) (Sebastian Wain) wrote in

I would like to point you to our Nektra's Outlook Express API, where
you can download the sample at:
http://www.nektra.com/products/oeapi/download.html and see some magic

Wow! That's very cool -- thanks for the link, I'll save that away for
next time someone asks about this!

-- dan