Does Outlook have anything similiar to the OnTimer event in Access that would allow me to monitor an Inbox continously in order to determine if an email alert which should arrive hourly has indeed arrived? Or if not,is there some alternative method to do the same thing? Thanks in advance for your help!
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How to determine if an email has NOT arrived using Outlook VBA
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Yes, I do it all the time, but if the Access application goes down...
I was going to just install an Outlook client on the server that runs the Access email alert program, and CC all the emails to it, and if it did not get a CC within a certain time frame, it would send an email to the admins from the Outlook client, but this has turned out to be something that Outlook can't do very well. I've decided to take the path of writing a Services app in VB.net that monitors the date and time on a text file I've programmed the email server to spit out every hour, the Service app will use System.net.mail to send the "system down" alert.
I was going to just install an Outlook client on the server that runs the Access email alert program, and CC all the emails to it, and if it did not get a CC within a certain time frame, it would send an email to the admins from the Outlook client, but this has turned out to be something that Outlook can't do very well. I've decided to take the path of writing a Services app in VB.net that monitors the date and time on a text file I've programmed the email server to spit out every hour, the Service app will use System.net.mail to send the "system down" alert.
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