Hi Monks,

I am tring to download email attachments from Microsoft Outlook using Win32::OLE. But I stuck at initial level I don't even able to get outlook folder list.
Please find below code I am using and Error I got.

I am using,
32 bit Straberry Perl ( perl 5, version 20, subversion 1 (v5.20.1) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int),
OS (64 bit) = Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1
Microsoft Outlook 2013

Error :

D:\Perl_Project\OutLook>test1.pl
Win32::OLE(0.1712) error 0x80020005: "Type mismatch" in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "GetDefaultFolder" argument 1 at D:\Perl_Project\OutLook\test1.pl line 9.
Can't call method "Folders" on an undefined value at D:\Perl_Project\OutLook\test1.pl line 15.
D:\Perl_Project\OutLook>perl -v


#! D:\Straberry\perl\bin\perl -w
use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw/in/;
#use Win32::OLE::Const 'Outlook.Application';
#use Win32::OLE::Variant;

my $OL = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application') || Win32::
+OLE->new('Outlook.Application') or die "$!\n";;
my $NameSpace = $OL->GetNameSpace("MAPI");
my $Folder = $NameSpace->GetDefaultFolder("olFolderInbox");

#print ref($Folder->{Items}) . "\n";

foreach my $subfolder ( in $Folder->Folders) {
   printf "%s\n", $subfolder->{Name};
}

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Thanks.

In reply to "Type mismatch" Error While Using Win32:OLE for MS Outlook by dushyant

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