Hi Experts,
I'm attempting to automate an approval process that involves connecting to a shared Lotus Database, Viewing the emails in certain folders (I'm not sure they are 'folders' in the lotus sense, they could be...they are some document collection), populating seperate list boxes with the emails from the different folders, allowing the user to select one, automatically change some content, and send an email.
I've been working on a proof of concept app to basically just get used to dealing the with objects and such of lotus. I've accomplished sending email and retrieving messages. When retrieving messages I did so by pulling the allDocuments collection - I'd prefer if I could pull just unread or a certain subset of documents.
I've encountered some difficulty in researching how to identify unread messages and such with the lotus com objects. I'm aware there is a local and a server-side database relating which doc id's are read/unread but I'm not sure how to access these. I've also seen some people using mapi to access lotus. I'm not married to doing this with the com objects or anything, I'm really looking for a recommendation on the best way of accessing Lotus programmatically from vb.
Question Summary:
What's the best method (mapi/lotus com/domino com/other?) to programmatically read in and send email with lotus from vb?
AND/OR
How do I tell if documents are read/unread or search against date/subject substring criteria or all of the above?
Thanks much.
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