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- Sample Message Hook
-
-
- The Manager.Sh sample is a sample spooler message hook provider (SMH32.DLL).
- The sample spooler hook is an example of a reasonably clever extension to
- MAPI which uses the documented MAPI spooler message hook interfaces to
- categorize and archive sent and received mail.
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- The sample spooler hook is shipped in source form for 32-bit platforms only.
- You must build SMH32.DLL first. For the DLL to build successfully, you must
- have an SDK that includes the import libraries for the Windows 95 common
- controls installed. For the DLL to run successfully on Windows NT 3.5, the
- Windows 95 compatible common controls must be installed. Windows NT 3.51
- includes these controls.
-
- After building SMH32.DLL, copy it to the system directory of the target
- machine, then use the mergeini utility to merge smh.inf into mapisvc.inf.
-
- For example:
-
- copy smh32.dll c:\windows\system
- mergeini.exe -m .\smh.inf
-
- Start the control panel and start the Mail and Fax applet. Select "Add..."
- on the Services page of Profile Properties and double-click Sample Mail
- Handler.
-
- Configuration
- -------------
-
- The sample message hook has a three-page property sheet interface for
- interactive configuration, which is accessible through service provider
- logon, through the ServiceEntry call, and through the
- IMAPIStatus::SettingsDialog method.
-
- When you first add the sample message hook to the profile configuration,
- you will need to log off the profile if you are already logged in, and
- then log in again before the change will take effect.
-
- General Page
- ------------
-
- Incoming mail -- Use the "Enable filtering of inbound messages" checkbox
- to start inbound/outbound mail "filter"ing. Use the "Add unread messages
- folder to hierarchy" checkbox to create a search folder containing all
- unread messages for easier access.
-
- Sent mail -- Use the "Archive sent mail into monthly subfolders" checkbox
- to instruct the hook processor to categorize sent mail by date and to use
- and create subfolders based on the month of submission to contain these
- messages. Use the "Archive sent mail monthly folders by year" checkbox to
- further organize the archives by year (e.g. sent mail\year\month folder
- hierarchy).
-
- Deleted mail -- Use the "Archive deleted mail into monthly subfolders"
- checkbox to instruct the hook processor to categorize deleted mail by date
- and to use and create subfolders based on the month of creation to contain
- these messages. Use the "Archive deleted mail monthly folders by year"
- checkbox to further organize the archives by year
- (e.g. deleted mail\year\month folder hierarchy).
-
- Filters Page
- ------------
-
- This page displays a listbox containing all the filters/actions which have
- been defined for this profile. The sample hook processor traverses this
- list from top to bottom in determining the disposition of a newly
- sent/received message. The first rule that "fires" will be the only one
- which is applied to the message in question.
-
- To add a filter rule, use the "New" button. To change a rule, select it
- and use the "Edit" button. To delete a rule, select it and use the "Delete"
- button. To arrange the ordering of rules, select the rule whose position in
- the list needs changing and use the up/down arrow buttons to make the
- appropriate change.
-
- When you select "New" or "Edit", the filter description dialog will be
- presented to you. In this dialog you should enter a display name for the
- filter rule that can be used for the listbox, select one of the filtering
- criteria (self-explanatory). Enter the appropriate string in "Value contains"
- (in the case of recipients, the filter compares both the display name and
- the email address), the display name (as shown in the left-hand pane of the
- Exchange mail client) of the target store in the "Target Store" field, and
- the display name (again as shown in the Exchange mail client) of the folder
- to which you want mail matching this filter rule to be copied in the "Target
- Folder" field. The hook provider will create folders if need be; to specify
- folders in a hierarchy, use a backslash character (e.g. My Mail\Clever
- Sayings). To get the negative effect (ie this rule fires for a message not
- matching the criteria), set the "Filter messages that do not match this
- criteria" checkbox. To disable a filter without deleting it, you set the
- "Discontinue the filtering of messages matching this criteria" checkbox. To
- choose archiving options for the filter (like in the Sent Mail / Deleted Mail
- option above) you may set the appropriate checkboxes for the rule.
-
- Exclusions Page
- ---------------
-
- This page displays a listbox containing all the message classes for which
- filtering is disabled. The sample hook processor traverses this list from top
- to bottom in determining whether it should filter a newly sent/received
- message. If any message class matches, rules processing will not occur for
- that message.
-
- To add a message class, use the New button. To delete a rule, select it and
- use the Delete button. To arrange the ordering of rules, select the rule
- whose position in the list needs changing and use the up/down arrow buttons
- to make the appropriate change.
-
- Known Problems
- --------------
-
- Some of the sample hook's features will not work if you use a tightly-coupled
- store and transport as your default message store. The archiving of sent and
- received mail will not work, because the hook entry points are never called
- when the message store server receives mail. Other features, such as archiving
- of deleted messages and auto-reply, will work normally.
-
- The hook only can be built on/for 32-bit platforms (this is a limitation of
- the sample provider, not of the hook interface itself). The Unread Messages
- folder doesn't always seem to be accessable from the Exchange client. The
- "Filter messages that do not match this criteria" checkbox doesn't always
- seem to work.
-