OutlookEX UDF - Help & Support (II)

[water]

Haven't used it before so we will need to do some investigation.

Let me check Google and I will come back with either more questions or an example script for you to test.

[water]

This should do the trick:

$oItem = _OL_ItemCreate(....)
$oItem.SendUsingAccount = $oOL.Session.Accounts.Item(2)
_OL_ItemSend($oOL, $oItem, ...)

[ngskicker]

Thanks water, i'll try it,

[ngskicker]

Hey water, i have a problem and don't know how to resolve it

#AutoIt3Wrapper_AU3Check_Parameters= -d -w 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 5 -w 6
#AutoIt3Wrapper_AU3Check_Stop_OnWarning=Y
#include <OutlookEX.au3>

Global $oItem, $Result, $sRecipient = "mymail@yahoo.com"
Global $oOutlook = _OL_Open()
If @error <> 0 Then Exit MsgBox(16, "OutlookEX UDF", "Error creating a connection to Outlook. @error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended)

$oItem = _OL_ItemCreate($oOutlook, $olMailItem, "", "", "Subject=AutoItYe", "BodyFormat=" & $olFormatPlain, "Importance=" & $olImportanceHigh, _
"Body=Bodytext in <b>bold</b>")

_OL_ItemRecipientAdd($oOutlook, $oItem, Default, $olTo, $sRecipient)
If @error <> 0 Then Exit MsgBox(16, "_OL_ItemRecipientAdd", "Error sending mail, @error = " & @error & " " & @extended)
; In above line i get error 600 and extended -2147023174

$oItem.SendUsingAccount = $oOutlook.Session.Accounts.Item(2)
$Result = _OL_ItemSend($oOutlook, $oItem, Default)

If @error <> 0 Then Exit MsgBox(16, "_OL_ItemSend", "Error sending mail, @error = " & @error & " " & @extended)
MsgBox(64, "OutlookEX UDF: _OL_ItemSend Example Script", "Mail successfully sent!")

_OL_Close($oOutlook)

The above script will generate an error and the email will not be sent, but if I open outlook then the entire email that was not sent will be send immediately, in addition to that, if I open outlook and then run the script above error does not occur and email succesfully sent,

Thanks,

[water]

Can you please add

_OL_ErrorNotify(2)

at the top of your script so we get detailed error information?

[ngskicker]

I put it at the very top of my script after #include <OutlookEX.au3>

and what i get is 3 message box with the following contents

COM Error Encountered in OutlookSender.au3
OutlookEx UDF version = 0.9.0
@AutoItVersion = 3.3.8.1
@AutoItX64 = 1
@Compiled = 0
@OSArch = X64
@OSVersion = WIN_8
Scriptline = 176
NumberHex = 800401E3
Number = -2147221021
WinDescription = Operation unavailable
Description = 
Source = 
HelpFile = 
HelpContext = 0
LastDllError = 14007

 

COM Error Encountered in OutlookSender.au3
OutlookEx UDF version = 0.9.0
@AutoItVersion = 3.3.8.1
@AutoItX64 = 1
@Compiled = 0
@OSArch = X64
@OSVersion = WIN_8
Scriptline = 2436
NumberHex = 800706BE
Number = -2147023170
WinDescription = The remote procedure call failed.
Description = 
Source = 
HelpFile = 
HelpContext = 0
LastDllError = 0

 

COM Error Encountered in OutlookSender.au3
OutlookEx UDF version = 0.9.0
@AutoItVersion = 3.3.8.1
@AutoItX64 = 1
@Compiled = 0
@OSArch = X64
@OSVersion = WIN_8
Scriptline = 3101
NumberHex = 800706BA
Number = -2147023174
WinDescription = The RPC server is unavailable.
Description = 
Source = 
HelpFile = 
HelpContext = 2097266
LastDllError = 0

[water]

"Operation unavailable" is expected. The script tries to connect to a running Outlook instance. If Outlook doesn't run you get this message.

I'm investigatin the other error messages.

[ngskicker]

When i put _OL_ErrorNotify(2) below _OL_Open() I only get 2 last error.

Edit: I did a search about "The RPC server is unavailable." and found this, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239276.aspx

 might be useful for you.

Edited May 19, 2013 by ngskicker

[water]

As I said above the first message is expected. It's more of an informational message.

[water]

Could you please add a "Sleep(5000)" after _OL_Open? I once had a problem with a badly coded addin - it was related to MS Word, but who knows?

[ngskicker]

sorry water, but it does not help

[water]

Could you try to send the mail to your own mail address? Are you connected to an Exchange server?

[ngskicker]

I do not know what it is "Exchange Server" so I guess I did not connect to it,

I still can not send email anywhere as long as I do not open the outlook, if I open outlook no error occurred

[water]

Google recommends to reboot the PC when the "The RPC server is unavailable" message appears. Does this help?

[ngskicker]

I guess this will not help, I had this error since yesterday, and until now I've shut down my computer several times, but the error still appears, I guess I would choose to open outlook before running this script, after all, keep outlook open is not a difficult thing to do, thanks anyway water.

[water]

But it is still strange and a completely unexpected behaviour.

I like my UDF to be as reliable as possible. And I like to understand what's going on.

A last try:

Does it help when you replace

$oItem.Close(0)

in function _OL_ItemCreate with

$oItem.Save()

Looks like Outlook shuts down as soon as there is no longer a reference to an item.

[water]

After more investigation I'm sure the behaviour we see is described here (Application Shutdown Changes in Outlook 2007 SP2).

Outlook shuts itself down if there is no open window (which is always true when started by _OL_Open) and there is no open reference to an Outlook item (mail, appointment ...).

So a bug in the UDF causes Outlook to shut down prematurely. The solution I provided above should solve the problem.

[ngskicker]

I try to replace

$oItem.Close(0)

in function _OL_ItemCreate with

$oItem.Save()

but it still does not help

[water]

Strange. Will have to do more testing ...

[water]

With the latest version of the UDF the script runs fine even when Outlook wasn't up and running.

OutlookEx 0.9.1.0.zip