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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:41:23+00:00

What I do now with Outlook: I receive email orders for products. I select

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What I do now with Outlook:

I receive email orders for products. I select a single or multiple emails in Outlook (a single order can have multiple emails associated with it) and then switch to my Delphi coded OrderManager program and click “Import”. It uses Outlook’s COM automation interface to read the text of each message, parses and processes each one.

The question is, can I do this using Thunderbird instead? Does Thunderbird have a COM interface? I must be googling the wrong keywords because I haven’t found anything yet.

Btw, I do have a version of my OrderManager that just reads the emails directly from my email server using Indy, but for several reasons I’d like to try to read them from Firefox.

Any suggestions, links to docs, or code samples will be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check this link out.

    You could write a C or C++ wrapper around XPCOM and then use that wrapper within Delphi.

    There is also an open source XPCOM wrapper written in Delphi. You might want to check that out as well. Thanks Stijn for pointing that out.

    Hope it helps.

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