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

Is there a way to use Perl on a Windows box to read and write to a public calender in Microsoft outlook?

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Re: Using Perl with Microsoft Outlook
by davido (Cardinal) on Sep 29, 2003 at 04:18 UTC
      Thanks heaps.
Re: Using Perl with Microsoft Outlook
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 29, 2003 at 04:30 UTC

    The security patches applied to most Exchange servers/Outlook these days cause MAPI headaches with dialog boxes saying "Naughty Perl script trying to access blah...." or such like.

    You may need this patch:

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/OfficeXPProf/Install/5.0.2920.0.1/W98NT42KMe/EN-US/ADMPACK.EXE

    Note if you are delivering mail to PST files you have a problem for which I have not been able to find a solution. SendKeys to the dialog boxes is disabled as well.

    cheers

    tachyon

    s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

Re: Using Perl with Microsoft Outlook
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 29, 2003 at 06:05 UTC
    Thanks heaps I should have searched more throughly but I wasn't searching for the right titles... of course now I can find everything. Thanks.