maskull has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to send Outlook 2013 message using Mail::Outlook module http://search.cpan.org/~duncan/Mail-Outlook-0.25/lib/Mail/Outlook.pm. I also need to set a custom message property to mark its sensitivity level, called X-ICCategory. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';
use Mail::Outlook;

  my $outlook = new Mail::Outlook();
  my $folder = $outlook->folder('Drafts');
  my $message = $outlook->create();

  my %hash = (
     To      => 'user@mail.com',
     Subject => 'Blah Blah Blah',
     Body    => 'Yadda Yadda Yadda',
  );

    $message->save();

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Now, if the message was an OLE object I'd try something like: 
  my $doc = Win32::OLE->GetObject($message);
  my $property = 'X-ICCategory';
  my $value = '2';
  

  my $docprops =  $doc->CustomDocumentProperties();
  unless (defined ($doc->CustomDocumentProperties($property)))
  {
    $docprops->Invoke('Add', {
                               Name => $property,
                               LinkToContent => 0,
                               Type => 4,
                               Value  => $value,
                              });
   }
  $doc->CustomDocumentProperties($property)->{Value} = $value;

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But it is a MailItem so I assume it has to be something like this solution here: http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=5&messageid=27515 I just have no idea how to translate this to Perl.

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Re: Adding custom header to Mail::Outlook::Message
by poj (Abbot) on Mar 12, 2017 at 18:22 UTC

    I don't have Outlook set up to test this but a couple of ideas to try

    use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE 'in';
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';
use Mail::Outlook;

my %hash = (
     To      => 'user@mail.com',
     Subject => 'Blah Blah Blah',
     Body    => 'Yadda Yadda Yadda',
  );
my $outlook = new Mail::Outlook();
my $folder  = $outlook->folder('Drafts');
my $message = $outlook->create(%hash);

my $doc = $message->{'message'};

# type olText=1 
my $uprops   = $doc->UserProperties;
my $newprop1 = $uprops->Add('X-ICCategory',1);
$newprop1->{'value'} = 2;

for my $prop (in $uprops){
  printf "%s %s\n",$prop->{'name'},$prop->value;
}

my $PropName = 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/string/'
             .'{00020386-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/'
             .'X-ICCategory';
            
my $pa = $doc->PropertyAccessor;
$pa->SetProperties($PropName, 2 );

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    poj
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[d/l]
      Thanks. Sadly that gives me this: 
      X-ICCategory 2
Can't call method "SetProperties" on an undefined value at .. line ..

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[d/l]

        What does running this give

        use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Mail::Outlook;

my $mail = new Mail::Outlook();
my $message = $mail->create();
my $Outlook = $message->{'outlook'};

print "
Perl               $] 
Win32::OLE Version ${Win32::OLE::VERSION}
Mail::Outlook      ${Mail::Outlook::VERSION};
Outlook            $Outlook->{'Version'}\n";

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        This is what I have

        Perl               5.016001
Win32::OLE Version 0.1709
Mail::Outlook      0.25;
Outlook            14.0.0.7172
        poj
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[d/l]

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