All,
This is a follow up to Turn a perl script into a Win32 Service. It does not matter if I use SrvAny or Win32::Daemon, I can not get my application to run as a service using ActiveState Perl 5.10 and Vista.

I have had some success running an application just not my application. It seems that the culprit is Win32::OLE and Outlook. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';

my $outlook = Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application') or die Win32::OLE
+->LastError;

my $namespace = $outlook->GetNamespace("MAPI");
my $folder = $namespace->GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)  or die Win32
+::OLE->LastError; # <--- dead
my $items = $folder->Items;

print STDERR "Folder: ", $folder->Name, "\n";
print STDERR "Total entries: ",$items->Count, "\n";
__DATA__

The error message is something about "METHOD/PROPERTYGET getdefaultfol
+der"

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I haven't yet tried ActiveState's PerlSvc (part of their PDK) but I have put in a call to the sales department. I am at a complete loss and am hoping some wise monk knows what I am missing. If anyone can get the script above to work on AS 5.10 on Vista as a service (using any tool at all), I would be very appreciative.

cross posted

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Win32::OLE (Outlook) as a windows service by Limbic~Region

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