Using ActiveX to _READ_ outlook mail

code_ferret · ‎11-19-2012

Hello everyone!

I am trying to fetch email messages from outlook and process them in my labview software. I have seen the various examples and posts about sending email with outlook using ActiveX, but after crawling around the web I have not seen any examples of reading email in labview using ActiveX. I am a newcomer to using ActiveX and am struggling with the specifics of how to do this. I hope that the LabVIEW fairies can leave some guidance - or better yet, an example - under my pillow (How to examine the inbox for new messages, fetch them, and then erase them).

I have successfully run various examples of sending an email, but I don't know exactly which sequence of ActiveX classes/calls to use to read email, or which types to wire to the inputs of the invoke node blocks (many of the inputs/outputs are variants, so if you don't know what they're supposed to be, you can't create them).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

code_ferret · ‎11-20-2012

OK, I've answered many of my own questions and have attached an example showing how to use the ActiveX interface to get email from my outlook inbox (written in LV 2011). I still have one major issue: it only retrieves my email. What if I want to authenticate as a different user to get mail from a different user's inbox? I tried a number of things, but have not been successful. Any help would be appreciated.