How to get 'NewMail' event from Outlook

[Chuankai Lin]

Hi,

I wrote the this script to get the 'NewMail' event from Outlook

================newmail.rb=======================
require 'win32ole'

ol = WIN32OLE.new('Outlook.Application')
ev = WIN32OLE_EVENT.new(ol, 'ApplicationEvents')
ev.on_event("NewMail") { puts 'NewMail!' }

k = gets

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But when I ran the script and tried to send a mail to myself, the
outlook hung. If I terminate my ruby program, then the outlook comes
back.

The script seems to affect the execution of outlook.

Does anyone have any idea? Is there anything wroing in my code.

Thanks for your time.

BR,
cklin

 

[Florian Gilcher]

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Hi,

I wrote the this script to get the 'NewMail' event from Outlook

================newmail.rb=======================
require 'win32ole'

ol = WIN32OLE.new('Outlook.Application')
ev = WIN32OLE_EVENT.new(ol, 'ApplicationEvents')
ev.on_event("NewMail") { puts 'NewMail!' }

k = gets

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I don't know you system, but what should k = gets do? This usually
lets you script wait for input on $stdin (whatever that may be). This
is no way to set you script into "waiting mode"!

Regards,
Florian Gilcher
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[Chuankai Lin]

The answer is found by my friend. The script below works on my windows
box:

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require 'win32ole'

ol = WIN32OLE.new('Outlook.Application')
#puts ol.Explorers.Item(1)
#puts ol.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder.UnReadItemCount
ev = WIN32OLE_EVENT.new(ol, 'ApplicationEvents')
puts ol.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(6).UnReadItemCount
ev.on_event("NewMail") { puts 'NewMail!' }

loop { WIN32OLE_EVENT.message_loop }
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