CDO problems

tcox has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello All,

I am trying to put together a perl script that will create appointments on an Exchange 5.5 box but am having trouble with the code. My first issue is when executing the following:

$MAPI = Win32::OLE->new('MAPI.Session');
die "Could instantiate MAPI Session: " . Win32::OLE::LastError() if (!
+ defined($MAPI));
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generates a 0x800401f3 error which is "Invalid class string." Does anyone have any information about this?

Thanks,

tcox

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Re: CDO problems by esskar (Deacon) on Mar 11, 2004 at 23:55 UTC
it doesn't seem to be a Perl problem, since the vbs code `Dim mapi Set mapi = CreateObject("MAPI.Session")` [download] throws an error also, at least on my XP machine Update: this may work for you! `my $outlook = Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application') or die $!;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CDO problems by maa (Pilgrim) on Mar 12, 2004 at 07:26 UTC
Hi, You could try instantiating a CDONTS.NewMail or CDOSYS.NewMail instead. There was a security issue with enabling MAPI.Session directly (IIRC) and I think it is now deprecated. HTH - Mark	[reply]