Good Afternoon Fine Monks,

I am forced to use Oulook 2000 at work. I suddenly started receiving a TON of SPAM and my administrator told me to send him the message headers from the spam so that he could get the Return-Path out of it and use it to bounce the offending email at the server level.

Not wanting to waste a bunch of time, I decided to write a short program to interact with my Outlook and extract the info I needed. I have it done (see below), but I am not able to get the return path, because I don't have the right constant. The closest thing I have found is ReplyRecipientNames. I have checked out the M$ Outlook 9.0 Object Library which is on my machine from the ActiveState install at D:\Perl\html\OLE-Browser\Browser.html, but I haven't found what I need.

I need the Return-Path or the entire message header so I can parse it out myself. Any insight out there? 

#!C:/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';

$|=1;
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;

my $Outlook = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application') or Wi
+n32::OLE->new('Outlook.
+Application', 'Quit');
my $ol = Win32::OLE::Const->Load($Outlook);

my $namespace = $Outlook->GetNameSpace("MAPI") or die "Can't open MAPI
+ namespace: $!";

my $Folder1 = $namespace->GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox);
my $Folder2 = $Folder1->Folders("TEST");

foreach my $item (in $Folder2->{Items}){
    print $item->{'ReplyRecipientNames'} . "\n";
}

exit 0;

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Any help is MUCH appeciated.

Update: Changed $|++ to $|=1.

bassplayer

In reply to Win32::OLE Outlook help requested by bassplayer

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