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"R.Wieser" <
address@not.available> wrote:
I'm trying to make some sense of some disassembled msimn.exe code (created using FreeIda) and could do with some cross-referencing it with the actual OE6 sourcecode.
Does anyone know if and where I can get my hands on such sourcecode ?
Still a properietary product owned by Microsoft regardless of anyone's
wish otherwise regarding a discontinued product. Abandoned or
discontinued does not mean unowned.
Couldn't find a copy of OE6's license, but I found one for OE5 at:
http://www.cs.uah.edu/~delugach/Courses/H399-01/EULA.htm
"You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE
PRODUCT, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation."
The license does not expire. However, if you bought the product then
Microsoft should've provided a dump of their source code repository.
IMN aka OE was acquired by MS from another company, just like for
Outlook. You could try to buy OE from Microsoft.
If you are trying to code an add-in (they were called add-ins instead of add-ons) for OE, Microsoft used to have a spec on the extension
interface, but yanked it away. However, they didn't remove the
extension interface, so add-ins, like OE-QuoteFix, continued to work.
Just to check that you understand, OE did not come bundled with Windows.
It first came bundled with IE version 3 (as Microsoft Internet Mail and
News hence why its executable's name remained msimn.exe) up until
version 6. For IE7, and later, OE was no longer bundled with IE, and
why there were later versions of IE, but OE halted at version 6.
There are some OE newsgroups, like:
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general, microsoft.public.win98.internet.outlookexpress, and microsoft.public.inetexplorer.(ie5.|ie6_))outlookexpress
but they have little, or no, traffic. I don't inhabit the Microsoft
Answers forums to know if their is an active forum for OE over there.
Although much of the information is outdated, Tom Koch runs the Inside
Outlook Express web site (
https://insideoe.com/). He hasn't been an OE
MVP since 2005. However,
https://insideoe.com/contact.htm says to use
the newsgroups.
I recall someone saying they had yanked the OE extension documentation
before Microsoft yanked it away, but that would've been 13 years ago, or
more, I had no interest in writing an OE extension, so I don't remember
who said they had the documentation.
As for getting the source code for OE itself, I've never heard that has
been available. Some companies will sell you a license to rebrand their product, and perhaps give you the source code. OE Classic tried to be
an OE replacement (but I remember it having problems). You could
contact them to see if they're willing to let you be a product partner. However, Thunderbird is open source, so mutating it wouldn't cost you.
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