Read/process in browser

[DavidC]

We are building an intranet asp.net application where all users have Outlook
2003 or greater. Can someone point me to ways to read from an inbox from the
browser (ActiveX or something better)? Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You might want to start by looking at the Outlook View Control; see
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=70. Beyond that, you'll need to
provide specifics on what your application intends to do, whether Microsoft
Exchange is involved, etc.

 

[DavidC]

We have both situations. Most of the time Exchange is involved but sometimes
users go directly to the ISP mail server via pop3.

I would like to be able to copy the from email name or address and also the
body of the email and paste it into a database column in SQL. We had done
that in the past from an Access front-end but are now moving to asp.net web
intranet. I have no trouble emailing out via asp.net but need a way to read
incoming emails, either the selected email or the one a user currently has
open. All users currently use IE but not sure if that will always be the
case. Let me know if you need more. Thank you.

 

[Salad]

We have both situations. Most of the time Exchange is involved but sometimes
users go directly to the ISP mail server via pop3.

I would like to be able to copy the from email name or address and also the
body of the email and paste it into a database column in SQL. We had done
that in the past from an Access front-end but are now moving to asp.net web
intranet. I have no trouble emailing out via asp.net but need a way to read
incoming emails, either the selected email or the one a user currently has
open. All users currently use IE but not sure if that will always be the
case. Let me know if you need more. Thank you.

This is more of a kludge suggestion/idea than a solution.

Could you create an Outlook rule? Something similar to Feedbacker's
response at this site.
http://www.astahost.com/info.php/ms-outlook-rules_t9458.html

And use Open/Write/Close/Dir statements to write a text file of your
values to a file that can be sucked in by your SQL server?

MS provides a link for scripts at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306108
with a link at the bottom the Ms Mosher's site as well for further
expansion.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

If you can't depend on IE or Exchange, things get very complicated quickly.
Basically, the bulk of the code probably would have to be client-side
JScript accessing the Outlook session running on the user's machine, and you
would need to use either an Outlook add-in or a third-party component like
Outlook Redemption to avoid the security prompts that protect email
addresses stored in Outlook.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[DavidC]

We are currently using Redemption in our client applications but I wasn't
aware that it could be used in a client browser-based solution.