Interacting with Ms Outlook Express

[colttaylor]

Does anyone have an approach for getting a list of email messages (with title, date, and sender/recipient email addresses) out of outlook express's mailboxes?
I am enhancing my accounting system with correspondent
management features (tracking phonecalls and emails between my users and their customers). I don't want to create a complete email client (with its own mailboxes) within my software. Rather, I would like to interact with the outlook express mailboxes in the following ways...

When a user is in the A/P-Vendor Maintenance screen within my software, I would like them to see a listbox of all emails sent from or received by the selected vendor's email address (that email address is a field in my database). I want the listbox to show date, title and all email addresses involved. If my user then double clicks on a line in that listbox, I would like the complete email message to be displayed.

Further, I have an email button on that maintenance screen which leads to a dialog box where my user can compose an email to the selected vendor and send it. Right now, none of the emails sent this way, get stored in outlook express's sent-items mailbox. I would like them to b




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