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I am thinking of writing a simple stand alone exe that will run in the background and every 10 minutes take information from an outlook pst file and convert it into a simple set of webpages.
I have been searching for some thing like this so you can easily access information from your outlook via gprs (no syncml sorry) so it would be a simple wml or html page, with links to subpages, etc.
Is there anyone who would be interested in this app if I got it to work, basically if you have a simple http server running on your machine the html files would be loaded into it so you could browse you inbox, taks, etc.
If I get it to work obviously I would add some security stuff into, but just wondering if anyone is interested in this type of thing, it would be read only though.
Yellowperil
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Posted: 2004-04-24 21:45:22
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You might want to take a look at Zoe. It's not quite what you're looking for, but it might just be better
http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/[ This Message was edited by: wvl on 2004-04-24 21:43 ]
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Posted: 2004-04-24 22:42:06
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background: I have oulook in the office environment, it downloads email from x number of accounts, now I need people to be able to see email, etc, from the web. in either web or wap pages.
I dont want to replace or change the routing of emails, I want that to be done by outlook, I just want make a web based front end into a desktop PST outlook environment, I could do this with an exchange server but I wont have that for another 9 months or so.
WOP is good and does exactly what I nee, but they have discontinued it which is a shame. If they just added the ability of changing the web layout, and or gave you the ability of extracting just the headers of the emails, then did a hhtp link to the email message it would be a perfect solution. I dont want to upload to a third party server, we have confidential business info, so my web server has to be used.
hope this clarifies what I am after
also on a MS environment
Yellowperil
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Posted: 2004-04-24 22:52:04
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Q: On which platform does ZOË run?
A: ZOË has been known to run on the following platforms:
FreeBSD
Linux
Mac OS X
Solaris
Windows NT/2K/XP
Q: How do I import my old emails?
A: Go to the preference panel (under "ZOË" on the main page). Click on one of your account. Clik on "IMPORT". ZOË will check your ~/Library/ folder for any mbox files and import them.
ZOË also uses SMTP as an import mechanism. To import your messages you will need to setup ZOË as your SMTP server in your current email client. ZOË's SMTP server runs on port 10025. Once that is done, just forward your messages to ZOË as attachments. This is the important part: you need to forward your messages as attachments otherwise ZOË will not recognize them as emails but just as plain text.
After that just configure Outlook to use POP3 to get it's mail from Zoe and all is set.
OK, so it's a little complex
..but the result is very interesting - oh, and it meets your needs too
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Posted: 2004-04-24 23:06:04
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I have something i cobbled together for aoutlook some time ago that allows you to read your email and look at contacts via web/wap.
Interested?
It uses PHP on the server
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Posted: 2004-04-24 23:14:26
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I wrote something like this. The bad news is that I was paid to do it, so it's not free. However, you can
download a trial here. I'm not saying it's particularly brilliant, but it does the job. Details at
Pocket Watch Systems website.
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Posted: 2004-04-25 01:13:39
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Got my interest...ill help if it can b done in visual basic (i have learned how vb can be more powerfull then some think)
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Posted: 2004-04-25 06:28:59
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I used to use Pocket Watch - the problems with it were my reason for writing what I did.
If there is someone who can make good use of what I wrote, they are welcome to take it - as long as they credit me and let me have back what they develop!
ALl it needs is an apache/php server and it needs to be running on WIndows since it uses the Outlook COM objects
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Posted: 2004-04-25 10:09:35
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didnt have a look at your program, I want to do something thats gonna be freeware so everyone can use it.
As to the main issue, I am thinking of doing this in perl or php, but the main issue is how to get it interface with a pst file.
Been trying to find some reading material on this but to no avail, I was gonna do a small vb app, but I have a bug in some dll's that wont let me view properties in the object &h80004002 erro, ehhhh. so gonna have a go with php.
If people wanna get together and make this a open source project I am all for it, as I mentioned before WOP does this really well, but the main limitation is the lack of modifying what is output and how it is ouput.
Yellowperil
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Posted: 2004-04-25 12:41:06
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The stuff that I have written works pretty well. It allows access to emails in all Outlook folders. You can read and reply to emails.
You can also view the contacts and send messages from there.
As I said, it needs to run on the same box as Outlook because it uses the COM objects to access the outlook databases
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Posted: 2004-04-25 15:23:59
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