SteveSchumacher Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Just discovered AutoIt; awesome. Not a (C/C++/VB/...) programmer. Wrote something useful in about 2 hrs that I needed a simple GUI for and ... AutoIt fills the bill extremely well. But; would like to improve a related process/system I've written (Outlook rulesets, Unix shell scripting) that looks like this: 1) Customer sends email to me in a prescribed format 2) Outlook (Exchange) ruleset forwards to email address on a Sun system 3) Sun system (easy on Unix) intercepts the email, processes it, calls another script that produces XYZ and emails same to the Customer This works ok, but would like to sever the links to the Unix system; Unix<->Windows/Exchange email links are less than reliable in our environment. So; would like to have: (?) 1) an Outlook Ruleset (or other mechanism) that doesn't forward these customer emails but instead writes each (ascii fine) to a (unique) file on the filesystem; then I can write something else that watches for these and processes them all on Windows. -or- 2) Have looked a bit at trying to "print" each of these files, using the print-to-file (we're still using Outlook 2002, IT-controlled) action in Outlook Rules processing; there is no save-to-file action, but this entails a pop-up requiring interactive inputting of an output filename unless that could be intercepted by AutoIT and a unique filename be supplied to that dialog(?). -or- 3) Am using email to let queuing be something else's responsibility and email is pretty good at that. And; some customers may have internet connectivity but not direct connectivity to our company's network; again, email fills the bill. So; I guess perhaps I could also install some other email server that I could perhaps forward to from Outlook/Exchange (I have no writes on the Exchange-server end of things at our company, all in IT-hands.) that is more malleable than Outlook/Exchange that could perhaps enable auto-saving of conforming emails to disk or interactiving with other programs that do the work and send XYZ to customers. So; am looking for guidance; how best to pursue this; I'm sorry for the broadness of this question; but [no falseness here] AutoIt'ers seem a handy lot with broad experience/needs /expertise so... thought someone might have some more educated opinions than mine. Thanks, if so - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedna Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Look here and search Resources UDF ResourcesEx UDF AutoIt Forum Search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrex Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 @SteveSchumacherRead a Edit ControlYou can use this to read Emails formatted in Text and RichText.If the Email is formatted in HTML you can use the IE UDF.These 2 should get you going to get there.Regardsptrex Contributions :Firewall Log Analyzer for XP - Creating COM objects without a need of DLL's - UPnP support in AU3Crystal Reports Viewer - PDFCreator in AutoIT - Duplicate File FinderSQLite3 Database functionality - USB Monitoring - Reading Excel using SQLRun Au3 as a Windows Service - File Monitor - Embedded Flash PlayerDynamic Functions - Control Panel Applets - Digital Signing Code - Excel Grid In AutoIT - Constants for Special Folders in WindowsRead data from Any Windows Edit Control - SOAP and Web Services in AutoIT - Barcode Printing Using PS - AU3 on LightTD WebserverMS LogParser SQL Engine in AutoIT - ImageMagick Image Processing - Converter @ Dec - Hex - Bin -Email Address Encoder - MSI Editor - SNMP - MIB ProtocolFinancial Functions UDF - Set ACL Permissions - Syntax HighLighter for AU3ADOR.RecordSet approach - Real OCR - HTTP Disk - PDF Reader Personal Worldclock - MS Indexing Engine - Printing ControlsGuiListView - Navigation (break the 4000 Limit barrier) - Registration Free COM DLL Distribution - Update - WinRM SMART Analysis - COM Object Browser - Excel PivotTable Object - VLC Media Player - Windows LogOnOff Gui -Extract Data from Outlook to Word & Excel - Analyze Event ID 4226 - DotNet Compiler Wrapper - Powershell_COM - New Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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