[Microsoft] product (line).  [[Explain.  Give references.]]
[[There are several distinct flavors--"IMO" just does some kinds
of e-mail ("Internet Mail Only"), "Corporate/Workgroup" 
gives ... 
with [CDO] ...]]



[MUA]



http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/ has much information about Outlook
and WAB (Windows Address Book).  http://oedbx.aroh.de/ explains formats.

Outlook Express (the "server") does ''not'' expose a [COM] interface,
but Outlook 2000 does (true?).
Even in the case of the former,
[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q230225]
apparently offers a way to hack COM (also see 
vbaoutl.hlp on msdn.microsoft.com).

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In March 2004, [Melissa Schrumpf] posted an interesting unarchived follow-up
which explained
"Outlook has the ability to
run an external program when new mail is received.  Using a COM extension, an
external script can access the INBOX.  For example code, the original poster
can have a look at:

   http://www.geocities.com/m_schrumpf/tcl/index.html

And scroll down to the IPC section...

      outlook export all - Use TCOM to export Outlook folders to
         the filesystem. Useful for dumping PST files to a
         directory.  Recurses directories. Saves attachments.
         If attachments are outlook MSG files, opens and exports
         them and their attachments.

If you can do that much, you can open whatever is saved out using [open] and
process it however you like.  Additionally, you can grab the text of the
message without saving it out to filesystem.  It's a property or method of the
message object, I believe.  I would also recommend:

      com tree - A COM object browser using TCOM and the tree
         widget (tree.tck by D. Richard Hipp). Extremely useful
         in poking around in COM object structures. Has the
         ability to execute methods within the structure being
         browsed."
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The Wiki page [tcom Allows Emacs as Editor for MS Outlook] shows how to grab the
text of a currently open Outlook message.
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The [Using Outlook Web Access (OWA) to access an Exchange server] page shows how OWA can be used from Tcl to access an Exchange server and even synchronize
other applications (lke KNotes) with Exchange.  This now also includes an IMAP-to-OWA proxy to allow access to email on an exchange server using OWA for IMAP clients.
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Examples on using outlook from tcl (through it's com object model) can be found in [tcom]
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