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Borland wrote:

> Is there anyway of opening Microsoft Outlook E-mails from within a Java
> Application.  I have developed a CRM program and would like to integrate
> e-mail.  I am able to send/read e-mails using IP*Works beans & can shell to
> Outlook using:

Well, that's probably the wrong way to do it. Rather than drive an 
end-user mail client from your program, you should be talking directly 
to your exchange (or other mail) server.

The best way to do this is to use the JavaMail API. Exchange has an IMAP 
and a POP connector available, so you can choose either one. POP is 
better if you want to use your application as the mail store (you 
download the messages from the exchange server and delete them from there).

If you simply want to peek at the messages but leave them there, you 
would be better off using IMAP, though POP3 can be used for that, too 
(just leave the messages on the server after you're done).

To send mail, use the JavaMail API to create a message (it can create 
MIME messages with attachments and all that jazz), and send it using 
SMTP by connecting to the SMTP connector of your Exchange server (or 
other SMTP server like sendmail or qmail).

In both cases, you're using pure Java code with no native dependencies.