I use a user property ("ReceivedDateOnly") to group on a received date in MM/dd/yyyy format and then subsequently sort on the real received date sorted on time hh:mm format.
The below code was usually reliable in Outlook 2013. Since migrating to Outlook 2016, I have had a lot of problems.
I know there is an alternate method that is allegedly better for handling processing the larger batches of e-mails that happens with an Exchange host but I lost my note and while this is an enormous pain in my side, I don't have the time to research it...
I now have more send/receives where it fails to populate the user property than successes even small batches. I have blown away my OST and reran everything which seemed to help for a few days and now back to the same behavior.
Aside from code, any other insights that I can take to the Help desk would be welcome too.
The below code was usually reliable in Outlook 2013. Since migrating to Outlook 2016, I have had a lot of problems.
I know there is an alternate method that is allegedly better for handling processing the larger batches of e-mails that happens with an Exchange host but I lost my note and while this is an enormous pain in my side, I don't have the time to research it...
I now have more send/receives where it fails to populate the user property than successes even small batches. I have blown away my OST and reran everything which seemed to help for a few days and now back to the same behavior.
Aside from code, any other insights that I can take to the Help desk would be welcome too.
Code:
Option Explicit
Private WithEvents Items As Outlook.Items
Private Sub Application_Startup()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set objNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
' default local Inbox
Set Items = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items
End Sub
Private Sub Items_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim dtReceived As Date
Dim objProp As Outlook.UserProperty
Select Case TypeName(Item)
Case "ReportItem" 'NDR's - Non Delivery Reports
dtReceived = Item.CreationTime 'Looks like this is the "Received Date"
Case Else 'MailItem and MeetingItem I definitely saw working
dtReceived = Item.ReceivedTime
End Select
'MsgBox "Date Received is" & dtReceived 'Yes it is running
'Property added below needs added to inbox view if you want to see or group on it
Set objProp = Item.UserProperties.Add("ReceivedDateOnly", olDateTime, True)
objProp.Value = DateSerial(Year(dtReceived), Month(dtReceived), Day(dtReceived))
Item.Save 'item needs saved now that it has been updated
ProgramExit:
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
MsgBox Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description
Resume ProgramExit
End Sub