Accessing Outlook PST file

[Roger Lord]

I am trying to develop an Access program that can read Outlook
emails from a folder in a .pst file, decode the text information
in the body of the email, and then move the processed email into
another folder in the same .pst file. Is this possible?

The purpose of this program is to allow remote users on the other
side of a firewall to request work to be done via Outlook email.
All emails will have the same Subject line. The Access program
will open the email, grab all text lines in the email, convert it
to field data, append the data to a table, and then move the
processed email to another folder so that it won't be read again.

Thanks,
Roger

 

[david epsom dot com dot au]

You can link to tables using the Outlook or Exchange
table types (both of which are actually MAPI).

(david)

 

[John Nurick]

Hi Roger,

It's possible but I wouldn't call it easy and don't know exactly how to
set about the .pst end of it. Probably the best place to start is at
www.outlookcode.com and/or www.slipstick.com.