How to prevent that Outlook is sending before my add-in is finished?

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Hi,

I made an Outlook AddIn (OL2003 and OL2007) by using VB6 and

Redemption Objects. I need to manipulate the message before sending

(change Body, remove and add attachments). In most cases this works

fine, but in some rare cases there seem to occur problems. It looks

like OL is sending the message before my add-in is finished. This is

mainly observed on OL that is connected to an Exchange server.

In my code I need to call Mailitem.Save a few times. For example,

after removing attachments and before adding a new one (without this,

adding attachments will fail). I suppose that OL uses exactly this

moment to send the message. This results in messages that do not

contain the attachment that I like to add later.

Is there a way to prevent sending messages for a while? I want to be

shure that the message will get only sent after I finished my job? Any

idea?

Thanks,

Kukulkan
 
What event are you using? I've never had any sends go out without my

allowing it when I've handled either the Send() event for an item or the

Application.ItemSend() event. It doesn't matter if Exchange is involved, the

first thing that will happen after an item is sent is the firing of the

Send() event for that item.

"Kukulkan" <regify@googlemail.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

> I made an Outlook AddIn (OL2003 and OL2007) by using VB6 and
> Redemption Objects. I need to manipulate the message before sending
> (change Body, remove and add attachments). In most cases this works
> fine, but in some rare cases there seem to occur problems. It looks
> like OL is sending the message before my add-in is finished. This is
> mainly observed on OL that is connected to an Exchange server.

> In my code I need to call Mailitem.Save a few times. For example,
> after removing attachments and before adding a new one (without this,
> adding attachments will fail). I suppose that OL uses exactly this
> moment to send the message. This results in messages that do not
> contain the attachment that I like to add later.

> Is there a way to prevent sending messages for a while? I want to be
> shure that the message will get only sent after I finished my job? Any
> idea?

> Thanks,

> Kukulkan
 
Re: How to prevent that Outlook is sending before my add-in isfinished?

Hi Ken,


> What event are you using? I've never had any sends go out without my
> allowing it when I've handled either the Send() event for an item or the
> Application.ItemSend() event. It doesn't matter if Exchange is involved, the
> first thing that will happen after an item is sent is the firing of the
> Send() event for that item.

I capture the send-event of the mailitem. Inside, I call my function

to reconvert the e-mail before sending. I think, the mailitem is

already marked for delivery in this moment. And outlook does not wait

until the Sent() event returns and try's to send in the meanwhile

(possibly in the moment I call Item.save).

While processing, I call an external compression utility using Shell()

command. To wait for the end of this tool, I use

OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION + SYNCHRONIZE, 0, TaskID) and

GetExitCodeProcess() in a loop with many DoEvents calls. May this be

part of the problem?

I wrapped the send-item event to capture it. The Cancel-Property is

wrapped, too. Only some customers are affected. On others it runs

perfectly. Is there a way to prevent outlook from sending/receiving

while I'm processing the mail?

Regards,

Kukulkan
 
Re: How to prevent that Outlook is sending before my add-in isfinished?

Hi Ken,

Thank you for your help.


> My guess is that your code is hitting an unexpected error in those cases
> where you have problems and is aborting your event handler or bypassing
> parts of it.

I used the debugger to step through all parts. Every involved routine

has an on error goto statement with an error-dialog. The complete

problem is, that I sometimes having different weird behaviours in

exchange environment (only by my customers, but never here):

Sometimes, the e-mail gets received multiple times by the recipients.

They are all identical. In my routines, I manipulate one(!) e-mail,

and in rare cases the recipient receives up to 5 copies (sometimes

only 3 or 2. That changes random). I do not change any recipients in

the e-mail. In the sent-items folder of the sender, there is only one

item! In my inbox, there are sometimes three absolute identical mails.

Sometimes, the e-mail comes without attachment. I definitely add an

attachment to the mail! In the sent-items folder of the sender, the e-

mail has the attachment. In my inbox, there is no attachment.

Something really strage is going on here...

I will try to find out more. Maybe one of my customers is willing to

let me do some debugging...

Kukulkan
 
Re: How to prevent that Outlook is sending before my add-in isfinished?

I have additional information:

I checked the behaviour with one of my customers. This is what we

found:

An e-mail, TO: Recipient1 CC: Recipient2 should be processed.

- processing occured with no error-message (changed Body and

Attachments)

- Recipient1 received the e-mail two times incl. attachment

- Recipient2 received the e-mail without attachment (one times)

- in sent-items folder of the sender, the e-mail is found one times

without(!) attachment

This is strange. The same mail arrived two times at Recipient1 -

including the attachment!

In sent-items folder, the attachment is missing!

Any idea? On most customers, no problems occur. Maybe a problem with

CC:? Is there something to take care about? Any idea?

Thank you,

Kukulkan
 
This is only a guess, and you need to find what's different about systems

where the problem occurs and where it doesn't, but my guess is an anti-virus

addin that scans outgoing and incoming emails. That's almost always a bad

idea and can cause problems like the ones you're seeing. Multiple sends,

sometimes hundreds of them, items lost in space or a black hole and various

other problems are all common when incoming/outgoing emails are scanned. See

if that's the possible cause of the problem.

"Kukulkan" <regify@googlemail.com> wrote in message

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> I have additional information:

> I checked the behaviour with one of my customers. This is what we
> found:

> An e-mail, TO: Recipient1 CC: Recipient2 should be processed.
> - processing occured with no error-message (changed Body and
> Attachments)
> - Recipient1 received the e-mail two times incl. attachment
> - Recipient2 received the e-mail without attachment (one times)
> - in sent-items folder of the sender, the e-mail is found one times
> without(!) attachment

> This is strange. The same mail arrived two times at Recipient1 -
> including the attachment!
> In sent-items folder, the attachment is missing!

> Any idea? On most customers, no problems occur. Maybe a problem with
> CC:? Is there something to take care about? Any idea?

> Thank you,

> Kukulkan
 
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