Accessing Outlook folders, other than Inbox

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Hi Dossy,
This is a good enough starting point. Thanks.

Barry

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Can someone tell me how to access other Outlook folders
using win32ole?

Barry,

This is a fairly ugly way to do it, but it works for me:

require 'win32ole'

o = WIN32OLE.new("Outlook.Application")

ns = o.GetNamespace("MAPI")
cf = ns.GetDefaultFolder(9)
e = o.Explorers.Add(cf, 2)

items = cf.Items
(1 .. items.Count).each { |n|
  item = items.Item(n)
  puts "#{item.Start}: #{item.Subject}"
}

# Shut down Outlook process.
e.Close

This iterates over all the appointments you have defined
in your Calendar.

This may not be helpful, but it might give you some
ideas …

– Dossy

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