In the years since I finished this Seminar, I've spent some additional time working with Outlook. I hate it. For basic users it's just fine, but for any kind of serious integration with the rest of the Office suite, or even working with IMAP and Gmail, it's a pain.
There is one nice new feature that gives you an easy way to allow programmatic access to your Outlook folders so that you don't have to deal with that warning message all the time. But aside from that, it's the same old problematic Outlook.
Sending email without Outlook is easy, and I cover how to do it with any SMTP server in this seminar. Retrieving email is a lot harder though. I want to be able to integrate with IMAP and Gmail directly from my VBA programs so I can pull mail from Gmail into Access. Not easy to do with Outlook.
So I'm researching this now. Gmail has an API that supposedly lets you do this. I'm spending time going thru it now and if I find anything cool, perhaps I'll make some addendum lessons or a Part 2 for this seminar - depending on what I find. Would anyone be interested in this?
I've actually been testing some options using Gmail and Outlook. I've got it working OK now, but I still need to do some more testing. The problem is that I was trying to sync Outlook to my original Gmail account that I've had for YEARS and there are TONS of emails in the Sent Items and Archive and I don't want to lose them. Even when I tell Outlook NOT to sync those folders with IMAP, it still locks up. So, I created a brand new Gmail account, and it's working just fine. So... stay tuned folks because this will be in lesson somewhere. I'm successfully pulling email in from Gmail to Access via Outlook.
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