Outlook Express and COM

[Alex K. Angelopoulos]

That's correct - OE is NOT COM-exposed.

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"Anthony Baxter" <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote in message
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> >>> "John E. Barham" wrote
> > I'm developing a server-side Bayesian spam-filtering system and would like
> > to pre-train the filter using my potential users' existing mailboxes, many
> > of whom will be using Outlook Express (i.e., switching to a Unix MUA is not
> > an option...).  I'd like to scan through their address books to build a
> > white-list and through their emails to build a dictionary of "ham" tokens.
> > Does OE provide COM interfaces to do this?  It would be especially nice if
> > it provided a pre-parsed interface to emails so that I could avoid parsing
> > raw RFC 822 messages or messing w/ DBX mailboxes.
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> The spambayes project (http://www.spambayes.com/) has an Outlook2000
> plugin that does just this. Unfortunately it doesn't work for Outlook
> Express - I _think_ Mark Hammond commented that OE didn't expose the
> necessary hooks. Check the spambayes archives for more.
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> Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
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