For Each loop: Some items get skipped when looping through Outlook mailbox to delete items
Likely cause: When you do this InboxMsg.Move
, all of the messages in your inbox after the one that was moved are bumped up by one position in the list. So you end up skipping some of them. This is a major annoyance with VBA's For Each
construct (and it doesn't seem to be consistent either).
Likely solution: Replace
For Each InboxMsg In Inbox.Items
with
For i = Inbox.Items.Count To 1 Step -1 'Iterates from the end backwards
Set InboxMsg = Inbox.Items(i)
This way you iterate backward from the end of the list. When you move a message to deleted items, then it doesn't matter when the following items in the list are bumped up by one, because you've already processed them anyway.
It's often not a good idea to modify the contents of a (sub)set of items while looping over them. You could modify your code so that it first identifies all of the items that need to be processed, and adds them to a Collection
. Then process all the items in that collection.
Basically you shouldn't be removing items from the Inbox while you're looping through its contents. First collect all the items you want to process (in your Inbox loop), then when you're done looping, process that collection of items.
Here's some pseudo-code which demonstrates this:
Private Sub Application_Startup()
Dim collItems As New Collection
'Start by identifying messages of interest and add them to a collection
For Each InboxMsg In Inbox.Items
If InboxMsg.Class = olMail Then 'if it is a mail item
For Each MsgAttachment In InboxMsg.Attachments
If Right(MsgAttachment.DisplayName, 3) = "xml" Then
collItems.Add InboxMsg
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
Next
'now deal with the identified messages
For Each InboxMsg In collItems
ProcessMessage InboxMsg
Next InboxMsg
'Loop through deleted items and delete
For Each InboxMsg In DeletedItems.Items
InboxMsg.Delete
Next
End Sub
Sub ProcessMessage(InboxMsg As Object)
'deal with attachment(s) and delete message
End Sub