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in thread Problem in installation of libwin32-0.191

Umm... well you can't run Outlook on a non-Windows box so I'm not sure how you thought that was going to work anyway.

Can't you talk directly to your Exchange server (or whatever your email server is) with one of the POP3 modules or something like that?

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Re^4: Problem in installation of libwin32-0.191
by CGN (Initiate) on Dec 10, 2004 at 14:51 UTC
    Hi,

    i didnt mean that i want to run Outlook in non -windows box but i want access mails which are in Outlook using Perl ,so i am in need of this package installed .


    yes i can access mails in my POP3 server using Perl(Net::POP3).

    Thanks, Gokul
      i didnt mean that i want to run Outlook in non -windows box but i want access mails which are in Outlook using Perl ,so i am in need of this package installed.
      • Win32::OLE is a Windows-based module. You can only install it on a Windows system.
      • Win32::OLE can only be used to control applications on the same computer, so you would need to be running Outlook on the same system. Outlook only runs on Windows. So you would need to do this from a Windows box.
      • Mail which is "in Outlook" often isn't actually in Outlook at all. You just have a view of data that is actually stored on a central server somewhere. You should look at ways to get at that data rather than looking at the clients.

      Just continually saying that you need something installed won't make it any more possible to install it on an incompatible system.

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