roboticus,
I came to a similar idea based on a question posed by BrowserUk who asked if I was sure if the account the service was running as had sufficient privilages. While I was sure that it did, I wasn't sure it would attempt to access the correct mailbox. I haven't tried it yet, but I do have some updates to share.

The ActiveState PDK includes a tool called PerlSvc that does seem to work. It creates an "exe" and the service wraps around that. The price tag is steep ($195 or $295 for the pro edition). What I am unsure of is if it will work with Outlook when I am not logged in. The code tries to attach to an existing Outlook process before attempting to start a new instance. When I got what I believe to be a successful test run, I was already logged in with Outlook open so it really wasn't a complete test. I am using a 21 day trial for now while I test out a few other ideas.

While I haven't been able to get it to work, example 5 in the Win32::Daemon docs looks to be the simplest complete example that would make converting an existing application fairly trivial. I have gotten example 1 to work (minus Outlook) so it does look very promising assuming I can work out my Outlook issues.

If I find that the only stumbling block preventing my application to work as a service is interfacing Outlook (assuming I can't resolve those issues), then I will leave it up to the person in charge to decide on a solution. (run it as a scheduled task and not as a service, drop Outlook and move to POP/SMTP modules, pay for the PDK assuming a complete test works, fire me, etc).

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Win32::OLE (Outlook) as a windows service by Limbic~Region
in thread Win32::OLE (Outlook) as a windows service by Limbic~Region

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