Application NewMail Event

Hi Everyone,

I currently have code that is running against all new emails I receive under the Application NewMail Event. However it seems that it doesn't work when outlook is first started and a trigger email comes in. It will work on the second and so on, or even after the first email comes in if I manually run it.

I have tested this a few times with emails that trigger the script, closing outlook and doing it again. Each time, it seems to fail to run on the first attempt but work thereafter.

Hoping someone has seen this before?

Thanks!

Provide the code. If too long, a short example.

Almost certainly the mail transfer has already begun before the code is loaded. Change your Outlook settings to not do a send and receive on startup.

I tried changing the send/receive settings and that didn't seem to work upon closing outlook and trying.

Code:

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Private Sub Application_NewMail()


'______ = New Script
'****** = Sepeartion in Script


'SHARED VARIABLES
    Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
    Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
    Dim objSourceFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
        Set olApp = Outlook.Application
        Set objNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
        Set objSourceFolder = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
        Set msg = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items.GetLast
        'Set msg = Application.ActiveExplorer().selection(1)
    Dim strFilename As String
    Dim LatestFile As String
    Dim LatestDate As Date
    Dim FileDate As Date


'VARIABLES FOR PHONE LIST
    Dim newItem As mailItem
    Dim Atmt As Attachment
    Dim fileName As String
        Set newItem = CreateItem(olMailItem)
   
'VARIABLES FOR JDE REPORT
    Dim olMail As Outlook.mailItem
    Dim olmsg As Outlook.mailItem
    Dim strheader As String              'JDE REPORT 2 ONLY
    Dim Value As String
    Dim MyPath As String
    Dim myShell As Object
        Set Reg1 = New RegExp
        Set myShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")




'__________________________________________DETERMINE WHAT EMAIL IT IS_________________________________________________


If msg.subject Like "EnterpriseOne*" Then GoTo JDE_Report
 
If msg.subject = "Employee Phone List - OFFICE PHONE DIRECTORY LIST.doc" Then GoTo Phone_List


If msg.subject Like "*Completed Normally" Then
    If msg.Body Like "*Work Center*" Then GoTo Completed_Normally
    'If msg.Sender = "Walther, Joseph" Then GoTo Completed_Normally
  End If


Exit Sub
'______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


                                            'OPEN JDE REPORT (ENTERPRISE ONE)
JDE_Report:


'DETERMINE ENVIRONMENT PATH*****************************************
    If (InStr(1, msg.Body, "JDEPRD01", vbTextCompare) > 0) Then
      ' PATH FOR COUNTY & CITY PRODUCTION
      MyPath = "\\JDEPRD01\E900SYS\PRINTQUEUE\"
  Else
        'PATH FOR PY NON-PRODUCTION
      MyPath = "\\JDEDEV01\E900SYS\PRINTQUEUE\"
    End If


'********************************************************************


'EXTRACTING REPORT # AND VERSION
 
 Value = Replace(msg.subject, " , ", "_")
 Value = Replace(Value, "EnterpriseOne Job ", "")
 Value = Replace(Value, "Completed", "") & "_"
 Value = Replace(Value, " ", "")


strFilename = Dir(MyPath & Value & "*.PDF*")


'***************************************************************


'LOOP THROUGH ALL FILES TO GET JOB # TO COMPLETE PATH


Do While Len(strFilename) > 0
      'If the date/time of the current file is greater than the latest
        'recorded date, assign its filename and date/time to variables
    FileDate = FileDateTime(MyPath & strFilename)
        If FileDate > LatestDate Then
            LatestFile = strFilename
            LatestDate = FileDate
        End If
        strFilename = Dir
Loop


'***********************************************************************


'Specify the final path to the folder to be executed
MyPath = MyPath & LatestFile


'OPENS THE FILE
myShell.Run MyPath


Exit Sub

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Appears the NewMail event is not appropriate for this purpose. ItemAdd is recommended.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/ff869202.aspx

"The NewMail event fires when new messages arrive in the Inbox and before client rule processing occurs. If you want to process items that arrive in the Inbox, consider using the ItemAdd event on the collection of items in the Inbox. The ItemAdd event passes a reference to each item that is added to a folder."

You could try either ItemAdd or NewMailEx described here. Avoid the buggy rules with "run a script" option. http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=62

Useful thread

Thanks Skatonni!