How to detect Offline mode?

[Martynas Kunigelis]

Hi everyone,

In Outlook 2002, MAPSession has the Offline property which tells if Outlook
connection to Exchange is offline. However, there is no such property in
Outlook 2000. Is there another way to detect the offline mode, like checking
some other properties from which the Offline property in Outlook 2002 is
hopefully derived from?

Thanks in advance,
Martynas

 

[Levi Wolfe]

Try using PR_STORE_OFFLINE from the MsgStore.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;181035
-levi wolfe

 

[Martynas Kunigelis]

Thanks for the answer, but I can't make my AddIn depend on CDO :-(

 

[Martynas Kunigelis]

Sounds like a great solution, but unless I'm doing something wrong, it
doesn't seem to work?

More specifically: I've configured Outlook 2000 to ask whether to connect or
work offline when it starts, and made a number of mail folders "available
offline", namely Inbox, Outbox, Drafts and Sent Items.

I didn't think it should affect Public Folders, but I am *able* to obtain
the \Public Folders\All Public Folders object with this configuration in
offline mode (I am sure it is offline because I have the Exchange server
test machine turned off at the moment).

Am I doing something wrong?

Best,
Martynas

 

[Randy Byrne [MVP - Outlook]]

Does the code raise an error on the line:

Set oFolder = oFolder.Folders("All Public Folders")

Try

If Err Or oFolder Is Nothing Then
'Offline
Else
'Online
End If

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