Dirk-Jan wrote:
On Mon Dec 18, 2000 at 11:17:14AM -0500, Dan Winship wrote:If the VBA interfaces can't get attachments or full headers, then it sounds like they only have access to the same info you can get by exporting the folder as a comma-separated file from Outlook itself. So if people want PST import, someone is going to have to write a parser for the PST files themselves.I don't think that's necessary: one can use MAPI or Simple MAPI, which is quite ugly to program, but does enable you to get all the information. The VBA objects for Exchange build on MAPI, but don't give you everything. Of course, a PST importer would give you the benefit of not requiring a Windows box. --Dirk-Jan.
I was originally going to write something that spoke MAPI, but I had a couple of problems... 1) *I* don't speak MAPI :) 2) The last version of mingw[1] I looked at doesn't include MAPI headers. I used VBA because I wanted to put together something (reasonably) useful in a short amount of time. I agree though, a PST importer that didn't require Windows would be *very* nice. Tim -- [1] Minimalist GNU For Windows at <http://www.mingw.org/> is a set of headers and import libraries that lets you use GCC to build Win32 apps without requiring any 3rd party DLLs.
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