Fun with Outlook and MAPI

[Steve Holden]

Chris wrote:

>>> Okay, here's the results.  The good news is that the code sent the 
>>> mail without any popup's.  The bad news is that the sent e-mail stays 
>>> in the outbox instead of the sent folder.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Well, only the same one I've already made, which is to look on the 
>> win32all mailing list archives. Since this appears to be beyond you, 
>> here's a note by Chad Stryker commenting on an original work by David 
>> Fraser.
>>
>> It may give you the clues you need, otherwise Google for the whole 
>> thread(s).
>>
>> """Thank you for figuring this extended MAPI interface all out.  I 
>> discovered a couple of problems with the code (on my system at least). 
>> First, the message in my outbox was marked as read.  Second, the 
>> message would remain in the outbox after it was sent.  After several 
>> hours of work, I added three lines to the function that mark the 
>> message as unread and cause the message to be deleted from the outbox 
>> after it is sent.
>>
>> First, I added a constant that I found in the MAPI header file 
>> MAPIDefS.h.
>>
>> CLEAR_READ_FLAG = 4
>>
>> Next I added two lines just before “outboxfolder.SaveChanges(0)”.
>>
>> message.SetReadFlag(CLEAR_READ_FLAG)
>> message.SetProps([(mapitags.PR_DELETE_AFTER_SUBMIT,1)])
>>
>> With these changes, the behavior in the outbox is consistent with 
>> sending messages directly from Outlook.
>> """
>>
>> regards
>>  Steve
> 
> 
> Actually, I had already found that message.  It still doesn't do what 
> I'm looking for(namely moving sent messages to the Sent folder).
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
Well, in that case please excuse my crotchetiness. It's probably the 
time of year.

bah-humbug-ly y'rs  - steve
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