I am having some troubles with the Outlook OLE and accessing some of its methods from Perl. Specifically, I'm looking to get the attachments from a file sitting in a public mailbox and move them to the network. A paired down version of my code is below:

 use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const '.*Outlook';

my $outlook = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application');
die "Outlook isn't running." unless $outlook;

my $namespace = $outlook->GetNameSpace("MAPI");

# some code here to get the location of the mailbox and the inbox of t
+hat mailbox
my $inbox = $namespace->Folders($i)->Folders($j);

# some code here to get to the proper email message
my $text = $inbox->Items->Item($wanted);

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Now from here I know I have the right message because print $text->Subject; will return the subject line. The problem is I can't seem to get anything else. I've looked through the object browser in outlook and I've tried Attachments but it doesn't seem to work. For instance, print $text->Attachments->Count; just returns the warning "Can't call method "Count" on an undefined value." Also, body/to/from etc. don't seem to return anything either. Does anyone have any tips/ideas? I checked the class of the item and it is class 43 (mailitem.)

In reply to Accessing Outlook OLE with Perl by Anonymous Monk

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