Does anyone know of a utility which would be able to pull out from a running Outlook 2010 the number of message in the Sent queue and in the InBox of its PST file?
I would like to back up the PST (yes, using VSS!) when there is some form of change to these numbers...
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2011-09-05 13:07Utility to inform of the number of Outlook 2010 messages in InBox and Sent
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2011-09-05 21:06What is the desktop OS? Is this a single install or for multiple users? Is Exchange involved?
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2011-09-06 06:59It happens to be a home installation of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit for a single user, no Exchange!
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2011-09-06 13:21VBScript and GetObject, perhaps? This assumes that the user running the script has the right to touch the running Outlook process and that the necessary ActiveX controls are available...
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2011-09-06 15:35If you are looking for something that notifies you as the desktop user you can use a rule for inbox items.
There are desktop gadgets available for un-read email (see gallery.live.com). Perhaps, you could modify the javascript to display sent item counts too.
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