set chck outbox before closing

Alan,

I assume you are referring to MSOffice Outlook and not to the built-in email app or the online MSAccount/Outlook service.

In the VBA module ThisOutlookSession, I have a script that interrupts Outlook closure.

Code:

Sub Application_Quit()
MsgBox "I suggest you get this working and then we can discuss what else can be done."
End Sub

Try putting that in and testing that it appears during closure.

The macro should run when you close Outlook for the first time since writing the script. For future use, you will need to enable this macro using whatever facilities are available in your version of MSOffice.
I use MSOffice 2007 and it's really awkward about Outlook macros but I believe that the scheme for enabling specific ones in later versions is more straightforward.
So look up enable macro or similar in Outlook help.

I've also got some code that I wrote as an exercise several years ago that lists folder contents so that would probably form the basis of listing the Outbox contents.
It would probably take me an hour to study what I wrote in order to understand it well enough to discuss it with you so please make sure that you get that simple MsgBox macro working first and then I'll figure out what to suggest.

I am not sure about two things you wrote:
1 I thought Outlook always brought up a dialog warning you if it found anything in the Outbox.***
2 I don't understand what a dummy mail in the Outbox has to do with anything.
2.1 Is your real aim just getting a chance to confirm Outlook closure & the dummy Outbox mail is just a method of forcing that?
2.2 If so, then we could probably just work on a form of the MsgBox macro that would achieve that end. You can make MsgBoxes have, for example, OK/Cancel, Yes/No buttons so such a MsgBox would provide a method of confirming closure.


*** MSOffice Outlook 2007 definitely still brings up a warning if the Outbox has mail that has yet to be sent.


It only does this if the Outbox contains an email for which you have clicked on Send.
It does not do this if you have merely, for example, copied an email into that folder.
Perhaps your dummy email is falling foul of this condition.


All the best,
Denis

Oh dear. I cannot help after all
I use that Application_Quit event to run batch files when Outlook closes.
You want something that can stop Outlook closing. The Application_Quit() event cannot do that; Quit has already started and cannot be stopped.
I've had a look around to see if there's an event before Application_Quit() that might suit your purposes but cannot find anything.

Denis

ALANGR said:

I am also going to try the 'delayed email' option in outlook.

Alan,

Yes, that will do what you want.

Denis