Can you say a few words about how this is working? I can understand the Perl well enough, but don't know enough about Windows OLE.

I see there is a place to configure the userid, but no place to configure the server name or password. So I'm guessing this is getting the information by doing all the interaction through Outlook? Cool.

Also when you do this:

Win32::OLE->CreateObject("Outlook.Application");

and then later load the object, are you starting Outlook at that point? Will this still work if Outlook is already started?

Thanks for posting the code btw.

In reply to Re^2: How to find when a new email arrives in my mailbox (outlook) by dmorgo
in thread How to find when a new email arrives in my mailbox (outlook) by gpurusho

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