Outlook Express Address Entries

[Jacob Roman]

How come I'm getting 0 address entries when I have many people in my contacts list already?

Private Function EMail_Test() As Long
 
    Dim Outlook As Object
    Dim MAPI As Object
    Dim Entries As Object
    Dim Address_Lists() As String
    Dim Number_Of_Address_Lists As Long
    Dim Current_Address_List As Long
    Dim Number_Of_Entries As Long
    
    Set Outlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    
    Set MAPI = Outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
    
    Number_Of_Address_Lists = MAPI.AddressLists.Count
    
    For Current_Address_List = 1 To Number_Of_Address_Lists
    
        ReDim Preserve Address_Lists(Current_Address_List) As String
            
        Address_Lists(Current_Address_List) = MAPI.AddressLists(Current_Address_List)
        
        Set Entries = MAPI.AddressLists(Current_Address_List)
 
        Number_Of_Entries = Entries.AddressEntries.Count
        
        MsgBox Number_Of_Entries
    
    Next Current_Address_List
    
End Function

[RobDog888]

Well, first of all your trying to connect to Outlook Express and your code is written for Outlook (Outlook.Application). OE does not expose any
valid COM objects. There are a few exposed but it was a mistake and thats why they always error when you try using OE.

You could import (I think) your OE ontacts to Outlook and then you should get a response.

Search by my username and Outlook and you will find tons of examples that I have written.

[Jacob Roman]

Oh I thought it was accessing Outlook Express. Ok. Now that I know that, I gave Outlook 2000 a try. Well theres just one problem. My email address is from hotmail. And on Outlook, it doesn't give you a choice to use HTML as a server. Just POP3 and IMAP for the Incoming Mail server and SMTP for the Outcoming Mail server. So I couldn't successfully run the settings from Outlook Express on Outlook 2000. Any pointers on how to get it going so I can start using some VB in here?

[RobDog888]

What do you mean by "HTML as a server"? Do you mean under Mail Account properties > Servers tab?

Forgive me, but I havent used OE since 1997.

[dglienna]

I have Outlook XP and it pops my hotmail account, just like OE does.
JR, you may have missed something. Maybe an Office update?

[RobDog888]

I just connected to my work's terminal server which is running Outlook 2000 and this should be the form where you need
to populate your mail account properties with the hotmail settings.

You probably need to do the Office Update (like dg suggested) if you haven't done one before. i think SP-3 is the latest for Outlook 2000. It will add the
security prompt when you access the Address entries objects though .

[Jacob Roman]

Yeah Outlook 2000 is pretty old. Ok other than importing settings, which didn't work because the server I need is HTML based, here's what happens on Outlook 2000. Ok when you add a new account, it says to type in the name you want to appear for the outgoing message. Then after you have that, you type in your email address that people can reply to. These two things are the same in Outlook Express as well. Now here comes the server part. On Outlook 2000, it says "My incoming mail server is a..." and you have a choice of either POP3 or IMAP, and you type in whatever server that is. Then it says "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server" and you type in the server name in there.

Now on Outlook Express, it's different. It now gives you 3 choices for a server. HTTP/POP3/IMAP. And you get a third option in the middle: "My HTTP mail service provider is (Hotmail/Other). Here's the HTTP server address I got:

http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp

And the SMTP outgoing mail is blank, while you have no choice but to type one in Outlook 2000.

Can anyone provide a link to the update for me while I look through Microsoft as well? That should help speed things up.

[Jacob Roman]

Found the link. I'm gonna update it and see if it works.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/of...225911033.aspx

[dglienna]

I found this:

http://www.slipstick.com/config/ol2000hotmail.htm

[RobDog888]

Dont you get a email account with your ISP? Hotmail doesnt support the direct sending of emails.

Edit: You are going to need your Office CD in order to complete your Office Update. They require it for some of the main updates.

[dglienna]

I know that I can't send email from my hotmail account, but I get it delivered into Office, as JR is doing for OE. It's an automatic setting in OE, but you have to import it to get it to work with O2K, according to the article.

The one time an update requred a CD, it didn't work, so I had to download the full install to get it to work anyways.

[RobDog888]

I have never had a update fail to install, requiring the CD or not. If you do not have an official copy of Office it may fail because of
that or a bad CD too.

[dglienna]

I'd copied the cd to the hd. Hasn't failed since, though.

[Jacob Roman]

Yes I have the CD. I had to update it with something else in order to update it with SP3. And so far I got it imported except it keeps telling me that the server is in offline mode. What gives?

[Jacob Roman]

Ah ha. I found the site that has the POP3 and SMTP's I need:

http://forum.theispguide.com/ftopic351-0-asc-15.html

And some of the people are saying this for hotmail:

POP3 = pop3hot.com
SMTP = mx1.hotmail.com

or

pop3: mail.pop3hot.com
smtp: mail.pop3hot.com

And so far it's working. It's downloading the mail from hotmail right now. Just gotta test something in VB after I get my contacts up.

[dglienna]

I think those keep changing, so while it may work today, it may not tomorrow.

[Jacob Roman]

Ok how do I get my contact list from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000?

[dglienna]

Import the .pst file. I thought it did it automatically for you.

[Jacob Roman]

Actually it's a WAB file or a CSV file. And there's one problem. The address book on Outlook 2000 won't let me import or export in the contacts list. The menu items are disabled for some reason. That's what's keeping me from putting in my address list.

[RobDog888]

Are you working On-Line? Also, are you viewing the Outlook Contacts folder when you try to do a File > Import...?

[Jacob Roman]

It's online. Cause otherwise it wouldnt be autodownloading new messages, or anything like that. I went to Tools > Addressbook... and it was in that. Both Import/Export is enabled in Outlook Express but disabled in Outlook 2000.

[RobDog888]

Ah, what about during your initial installation of Outlook. Did you install all options? I think its the Importers and filters, or something like that?

[dglienna]

That could be a problem. If your addressbook is online at hotmail.com, then it is n't in OE at all, so you won't be able to import it into Outlook!

Maybe it would be easier to xfer the ones that you have in msn?

You can import them into Hotmail.com, but you can't export them.

I guess you'll have to either send an email to everyone on your contact list, and copy it to yourself, and then add each one manually, or just enter everyone manually.

Once it's anywhere else, you can import it to everywhere else.

Looks like you've found the flaw in Hotmail.com online!