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Old 03-07-2003, 04:00 AM   #1
Trevor Gensch
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"Jason Swager" <jswager@alohaoi.com> wrote in message
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> I've got an interesting problem: how do you send an Outlook mail message
to
> yourself? Actually, that's rather easy with an email server - but how to
do
> it when the email server is off line?
>
> Here is the issue. I have some customers that run Outlook using Personal
> Folder files, rather than using an Exchange server. This means that they
> can run Outlook when the email server is down; they can't send or receive
> email, but they can run Outlook. I have a small utility that monitors the
> status of the email server and can pop a warning message when the email
> server goes down; it runs on the same machine as the user's Outlook. The
> customers have requested that instead of popping a custom notification of
> its own, that the utility send a message to Outlook, so that the message
can
> be processed by their new email notification and Inbox Rules.
>
> At first, I thought this was impossible - no new emails if the server is
> down. But after poking around with the COM interfaces to Outlook, I found
I
> could easily create a new message and put it into any folder I want
> including the Inbox. Unfortunately, I ran into several problems:
>
> 1) The message is in an un-sent state. If you open it, the message
appears
> in the compose mode. You can still add recipients and such.
>
> 2) The message receives no new message notification - no ding, no popup
> dialog box, no tray icon.
>
> 3) And most important for the customer - no Inbox Rules get triggered on
the
> message.
>
> Is what I'm trying even possible? Thanks in advance for any help...

Nope.
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