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Id: 35734
Status: stalled
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Queue: Mail-Outlook
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Requestors: igobonk [...] gmail.com
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Broken in: 0.13
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  Thu May 08 17:37:35 2008 igobonk [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: From() does not return a list and does not return the address as described in documentation
I was trying to write a script that would extract e-mail messages from the Outlook inbox. According to the CPAN documentation for Mail::Outlook::Message for From(): "Returns a list containing the Name and Address of the user" As far as I can tell this isn't true. In my case, From() only returned a single item, which was the Name. I was unable to get the Address at all. As a workaround, I used the facility in Outlook to export all of the e-mail messages to Excel and got the addresses that way.
  Thu Sep 18 13:08:02 2008 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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> According to the CPAN documentation for > Mail::Outlook::Message for From(): > > "Returns a list containing the Name and Address of the user"
It will only return the address if Outlook is configured to do that. I think also depends on which version of Outlook you have. If message is set to readonly access, then the Name is the only part that will be returned. Unfortunately I no longer use Windows, but would be interested if anyone can figure out a way to override the request to get the From field and return the Address.
  Thu Sep 18 13:08:04 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Sep 18 13:08:05 2008 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'