I had the same problem you did – didn’t find much that worked. The following code, however, works like a charm. import win32com.client outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch(“Outlook.Application”).GetNamespace(“MAPI”) inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6) # “6” refers to the index of a folder – in this case, # the inbox. You can change that number to reference # any other … Read more
Update as of 2020: Over a decade since this question and things have moved on. Microsft now has a Rest API that will allow you to easily access this data. Original Answer I have not used PHP to do this but have experience in using C# to achieve the same thing. The Outlook API is … Read more
It’s a mess. MAPI or CDO via a .NET interop DLL is officially unsupported by Microsoft–it will appear to work fine, but there are problems with memory leaks due to their differing memory models. You could use CDOEX, but that only works on the Exchange server itself, not remotely; useless. You could interop with Outlook, … Read more