HowTo: Get root folder in outlook

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HowTo: Get root folder in outlook
 
Torsten Lang




Posts: 3
 Joined: 2006-11-08
After studying your examples of your Outlook Developer Tricks I always noticed that you entered the name of the inbox's parent folder hardcoded.
Since the "Personal Folders"-folder of every computer might be called differently I am wondering if there is a way to get the name dynamically.

We plan to add a new folder being a sibling of the inbox-, contacts, outbox-, etc folder, but to do so we need the name of the root folder.
Usually it would be "Personal Folders", but my Outlook for example has no "Personal Folders" due to the localization, it is called differently ("Postfach - [forename lastname]").

I managed to get the whole folder structure, but this doesn't really help me as my "Personal Folders" has a folder as sibling on the same level called "public folders", aswell there might be more folders on the same level.

I have been searching for hours to get the folder object that holds my inbox as child (with poor success) and I'd pretty much appreciate any help.
Posted 10 Nov, 2006 09:18:29 Top
Dmitry Kostochko


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Posts: 2875
 Joined: 2004-04-05
Hi Torsten,

You can try to use the code below: 


  function GetFullFolderName(const AFolder: MAPIFolder): WideString;
  var
    IDisp: IDispatch;
    Folder: MAPIFolder;
  begin
    Result := '';
    try
      Folder := AFolder;
      while Assigned(Folder) do begin
        Result := '' + Folder.Name + Result;
        IDisp := Folder.Parent;
        if Assigned(IDisp) then
          IDisp.QueryInterface(IID_MAPIFolder, Folder)
        else
          Folder := nil;
      end;
      if Result
<>
 '' then Delete(Result, 1, 1);
    except
      // mailbox permissions
    end;
  end;


var
  S: WideString;
  IInbox: MAPIFolder;
begin
  IInbox := OutlookApp.GetNamespace('MAPI').GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox);
  if Assigned(IInbox) then
    try
      S := GetFullFolderName(IInbox);
      ShowMessage(S);
    finally
      IInbox := nil;
    end;
end;



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Posted 10 Nov, 2006 11:36:59 Top
Torsten Lang




Posts: 3
 Joined: 2006-11-08
Working like a charm,

thank you :)
Posted 13 Nov, 2006 04:00:24 Top