Win32::OLE works great for accessing Outlook from Perl, with the below iterating over all the messages in your Inbox (but possibly not sub-folders).

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE 'in';
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook'; # olFolderInbox

my $outlook = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application')
  or do {
    my $reason = Win32::FormatMessage(Win32::GetLastError());
    die "Cannot get active Outlook object: $reason";
  };

my $namespace = $outlook->GetNamespace('MAPI');

if (my $folder = $namespace->GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)) {
    print $folder->Name, "\n";

    foreach my $email (in $folder->Items) {
        print "  ", $email->Subject, "\n" 
          if $email->Subject eq 'Build 50.2';

        # Do something with $email.
    }
}

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However, if you do plan on doing something further with $email once you've found the right message, it is essential that you use ActivePerl's OLE browser, thumb through the MSDN Library and/or Google liberally for example usage as knowing what to access or look for in the OLE objects is 99% of the battle!

    --k.


Update: s/ eq /\n if $email->Subject eq /; # oops

In reply to Re: How do I search for Subject Title in Outlook? by Kanji
in thread How do I search for Subject Title in Outlook? by gasho

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