import dbx files into Outlook Express inbox using VB

mikev · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

I have several hundred dbx files save to disk from outlook express.
How can I import them into the inbox using VB?

Thanks

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PA Bear · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 123

1. I don't know if it's possible.

2. I do know that you cannot import multiple DBX files into the inbox
folder.

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

mikev@vanhoff.com wrote:
> I have several hundred dbx files save to disk from outlook express.
> How can I import them into the inbox using VB?
>
> Thanks

mikev · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Thanks It was worth a try. I have seen all of the links you provided,
but they are mostly a manual process. I need to be able to automate
this.

Jim Pickering · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 23

Outlook Express, unlike Outlook is not easily programmable. There is very
little published about using an API for Outlook Express by MSDN with this
exception:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/outlookexpress/oe/oe_entry.asp
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.

wrote in message @n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks It was worth a try. I have seen all of the links you provided,
> but they are mostly a manual process. I need to be able to automate
> this.
>

Ant · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

> Outlook Express, unlike Outlook is not easily programmable. There is very
> little published about using an API for Outlook Express by MSDN with this
> exception:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/outlookexpress/oe/oe_entry.asp

That would be nothing at all then. The link is given as the first hit
when a search for "API for Outlook Express" is done from the msdn home
page. However, when followed it leads to a 404. Very clever, MS.

I do wonder how the author of OE-Quoutefix managed to discover the API.

Jim Pickering · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 23

"Ant" wrote in message @TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> I do wonder how the author of OE-Quoutefix managed to discover the API.
>

The same way other programmers for Outlook Express do it. Trial and error.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.

Steve Cochran · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 331

I don't think OE Quotefix uses OE APIs.

steve

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> "Ant" wrote in message
> @TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>> I do wonder how the author of OE-Quoutefix managed to discover the API.
>>
>
>
> The same way other programmers for Outlook Express do it. Trial and
> error.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
> Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.
>
>

Steve Cochran · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 331

This will import individual dbx files, but not automatically.
www.oehelp.com/OEX/

You can manually import dbx files that are not corrupt using the method in
the last paragraph on OE on this page: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

steve

wrote in message @73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
>I have several hundred dbx files save to disk from outlook express.
> How can I import them into the inbox using VB?
>
> Thanks
>

Steve Cochran · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 331

They changed the link and the name.

Here is the new link:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709546.aspx

The APIs there described work for OE, but you won't be able to import from
dbx files using any of them. I had to write my own routine that decoded
them to get it to work in OEX.

steve

"Ant" wrote in message @TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> "Jim Pickering" wrote:
>
>> Outlook Express, unlike Outlook is not easily programmable. There is
>> very
>> little published about using an API for Outlook Express by MSDN with this
>> exception:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/outlookexpress/oe/oe_entry.asp
>
> That would be nothing at all then. The link is given as the first hit
> when a search for "API for Outlook Express" is done from the msdn home
> page. However, when followed it leads to a 404. Very clever, MS.
>
> I do wonder how the author of OE-Quoutefix managed to discover the API.
>
>

Ant · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

> They changed the link and the name.
> Here is the new link:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709546.aspx

Thanks.

> The APIs there described work for OE,

Seems like there's more MS madness going on here. That section of msdn
is about Vista, yet pretty much all of the routines are deprecated or
obsolete. Why include them in new messaging API documentation when
they really ought to be in the historic section of msdn?

I had a look at some of the functions, and many state they were
introduced with OE6 and XP -- but they are already deprecated! What's
up with that? Presumably they won't work for for OE5 on Win2k.

I have Visual Studio 2003 (with C++) on XP on another machine, so I
searched for the include file msoeapi.h used in the examples. It's
not there!

> but you won't be able to import from
> dbx files using any of them. I had to write my own routine that decoded
> them to get it to work in OEX.

Yup.

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