Question

I’m planning to develop a VSTO Outlook add in to generate some statistics on mails (count of mails by day, month, dayOfWeek, domain, sender, attachment# – that kind of thing).

I can iterate each mail folder and individual mails to gather these statistics, but having done this once, I don’t want to have to do a full iteration again.
I’d like to be able to query the mailboxes e.g.

“Show me all of the mails received/sent since %DateTime%”, or better,
“Show me all of the mails received/sent since %Mail_Identifer%”.

Is this kind of querying possible or some other mechanism that will allow me skip over ‘old’ mails?

I’m using VS2008 and targeting Outlook 2003.

Answer 1

How about a query using the Items.Find method? See also:

• Doing more with Outlook filter and SQL DASL syntax
• Filtering items using query keywords
• Filtering items using string comparison
• Other examples