I've been meddling a bit with Win32::OLE and specifically trying to 'drive' outlook with it.

I've a notion of extracting emails and saving them to an archive based on various contenty-things.

So what I've got so far is:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';
use Data::Dumper;

my $outlook   = Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application') or die $!;
my $namespace = $outlook->GetNameSpace('MAPI');
my $folder    = $namespace->GetDefaultFolder(6)->Folders('Archive');

my $items = $folder->Items;

foreach my $msg ( $items->in ) {
    foreach my $key ( keys %{$msg} ) {
        print "$key: ", $msg->{$key}, "\n";
    }

    print Dumper \$msg;

    print "\n\n-----\n\n";
}

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This seems to work fairly well - I can extract a 'RecievedTime' field on my messages and break it apart.

However, for a bunch of my mails, I'm getting practically every field is 'undef'. 

if ( defined $msg -> {$key} ) { 
    print "$key: ", $msg -> $key, "\n";
}

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I get: 
Class: 43
MessageClass: IPM.Note
Subject: some_subject_line_here
Sent: 1
DownloadState: 1
MarkForDownload: 1

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And nothing else. I am assuming this is something that hasn't been downloaded by my mail client for some reason. I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to trigger loading of the message, in order to extract the fields I'm interested in.

In reply to Win32::OLE and Outlook objects by Preceptor

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