Catch delete in MailItem_Close event

[|{arl Shtoshek]

Hi, All!

Is there ANY way to determine if the MailItem is being deleted in its
MailItem_Close event?

I'm doing a check whether the MailItem is changed and if it is, I
display the "Do you want to save changes?" dialog (with a
MsgBox(...)). If the user chooses "Yes", I call Inspector.Close
olSave. Here "Inspector" is the wrapper class which contains the
MailItem object.

The problem is - if the MailItem is changed, but is being deleted, I'm
displaying the "do you want to save changes" dialog anyway, because I
don't know that it's being deleted.

I'm using VB6 and developing for OL2000

The code looks somewhat like this:

Private Sub m_objMail_Close(Cancel As Boolean)
Dim iRetVal As Integer

If m_objMail.Saved = False Then

'Here I would like to know if m_objMail is being deleted

iRetVal = MsgBox("Save changes?", vbYesNoCancel)
Select Case iRetVal
Case vbYes
m_objInsp.Close olSave
Case vbNo
m_objInsp.Close olDiscard
Case vbCancel
Cancel = True
End Select
Else
m_objInsp.Close olDiscard
End If

End Sub

TIA,
Karls

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You could trap ItemAdd in the Deleted Items folder's Items collection but
I'm not sure if that would happen before Item_Close or during or after, and
it wouldn't fire if the user hard-deleted the item using Shift+Delete.
There's really no good way to do what you want but you can experiment with
the timing of the ItemAdd event to see if it does anything at all for you.