Deleting mail from server programatically (ol2k/ol2k3)

[Magnus Holm]

Hi.

My Outlook is setup to leave mail on the server for 14 days.
I would like to delete some of these (spam) mails programatically.
Is there a way to do this using vba?


Magnus

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

No, unless you write your own code that uses POP3 protocol to talk directly
to your POP3 server.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Magnus Holm]

No, unless you write your own code that uses POP3 protocol to talk directly
to your POP3 server.

Okay. Let's say I do. Not being too familiar with how messages are handled
on a pop3 server, my first guess would be to use the id returned by UIDL
<message number>. How do I, in Outlook, find the corresponding id?
MailItem.EntryID is an Internal Outlook id, right?

Magnus

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

Correct. Outlook UID is stored in a property with tag = 0x65A0001E (at least
that's what Outlook 2002 uses, I didn't check other versions).
as well as a named property with GUID =
{00062014-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}, id = 0x8F06, PT_BINARY.
You cannot access it using Outlook Object Model, only Extended MAPI
(C++/Delphi), CDO 1.21 or Redemption.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Magnus Holm]

Hi, Dmitry

Correct. Outlook UID is stored in a property with tag = 0x65A0001E (at least
that's what Outlook 2002 uses, I didn't check other versions).
as well as a named property with GUID =
{00062014-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}, id = 0x8F06, PT_BINARY.
You cannot access it using Outlook Object Model, only Extended MAPI
(C++/Delphi), CDO 1.21 or Redemption.

Ok. After some hours of Googling, it seems to me that I can get this
property from the mailitem's MAPIOBJECT.
Is this correct, and if it is: how? Some Delphi source code would be of
great help ;-)

Magnus

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

See
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...=3f44f6a9%241%40newsgroups.borland.com&rnum=1

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Magnus Holm]

Dmitry!

It all works out now that I got the Extended MAPI units, except for the fact
that I can't find a property containing the information.
I'm using Outlook 2K, which seems to have a different approach to this than
2K3. The 0x65A0001E property tag is supposed to show up in OutlookSpy
(iMessage), right?

Magnus

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

When you look at the message using OutlookSpy (click IMessage), do you see
any named properties that contain the UID?

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Magnus Holm]

Nopes. I guess it's stored somewhere else.

Well... long story short, I upgraded to Outlook XP.
The program works great, deleting mail classified as spam from my pop3
account while leaving the "ham" mail alone.

Finally I can use pop3 on my IPAQ via GSM without having to download 2000
spam messages along with the mail I actually care to read ;-)

Thanks a lot for helping me out, Dmitry!

Magnus