Run time error 13 - Type mismatch

[Amapola188]

Good afternoon
One of my co-workers expects me to keep all my e-mails but I am too lazy to
move them over to a separate folder every so often. So I thought VBA could
help!

I have the following code and it does ask me to specify the date and the
folder but then returns run time error 13 'Type mismatch'. - I have trying
other bits and pieces but can't identify where the problem is. When I choose
debug, the line that causes the error is not highlighted so I don't know
where to start looking.

Any help would be most appreciated! - Thank you! Christine

Private Sub CleanUpMail()

Dim ns As NameSpace
Dim objInbox As MAPIFolder
Dim objSentItems As MAPIFolder
Set ns = ThisOutlookSession.Session
Set objInbox = ns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set objSentItems = ns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail)

Dim msg As MailItem

Dim strTidyDate As String
Dim varTidyDate As Date

strTidyDate = InputBox( _
Prompt:="Enter the date up to which messages will be moved", _
Title:="Input Date", _
Default:=Date - 60)

'Verify if entered data is a valid date
If Not IsDate(strTidyDate) Then Exit Sub

varTidyDate = CDate(strTidyDate)
'varTidyDate = Format(strTidyDate, "dd/mm/yyyy")

Dim SendToFolder As MAPIFolder
Set SendToFolder = ns.PickFolder

'Run through each item in Sent Items
For Each msg In objSentItems.Items

'Look for message sent before declared date
If msg.SentOn < varTidyDate Then
msg.Move SendToFolder 'need to identify folder
End If

Next

'Run through each item in the Inbox
For Each msg In objInbox.Items

'Look for messages received before specified date
If msg.ReceivedTime < varTidyDate Then
msg.Move SendToFolder 'need to identify folder
End If

Next

End Sub

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You didn't say which statement raises the error. My guess is that it's this
one:

For Each msg In objSentItems.Items

and that the item in question is not a MailItem. A simple solution is to add
an On Error Resume Next statement to the beginning of the procedures so that
such errors are simply skipped.

 

[Amapola188]

Hi Sue

Yes, it seems that was it. As the error wasn't highlighted, I didn't know
where to start looking. I think it's the fact that there's meeting invites in
the Inbox which are not classed as mail items.

The code now seems to work sporadically, i.e. sometimes nothing happens but
there's no longer error messages so that's good!

Thanks for your help! Christine