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I have a barebones c# service installed and want to use the outlook.interop functionallity from within my program. Just to detect and read new emails recieved. I have the program that does this but it is a form application. Is it possible to use outlook.interop from a C# service?
Better avoid using an interactive application within a service environment. Using Outlook from a service is not supported by Microsoft and will get you probably in all sorts of trouble (think message boxes popping up for instance).
If you want to talk to an Exchange server better use CDO/MAPI or the Exchange Web service API.
If you want to talk to a POP3 or IMAP server use a dedicated library.