[Oorexx-bugs] [ oorexx-Bugs-1676463 ] 80004005 Processing Outlook on busy system

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Bugs item #1676463, was opened at 2007-03-08 05:05
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Submitted By: oorexxpert (oorexxpert)
>Assigned to: Mark Miesfeld (miesfeld)
Summary: 80004005 Processing Outlook on busy system

Initial Comment:
My REXX script processes a Microsoft Outlook folder.  Randomly, I receive a syntax error trying to retrieve the body of an email.  The dump of condition("O") is:

  INSTRUCTION....SIGNAL
  PROGRAM........C:\Documents and Settings\John Bodoh\my documents\imdb\testole.REX

  CONDITION......SYNTAX
  MESSAGE........An unknown OLE error occured (HRESULT=80004005).

  DESCRIPTION....
  PROPAGATED.....0
  ADDITIONAL.....An Array:
                  80004005
  POSITION.......23
  TRACEBACK......A List:
                      23 *-* body = mail_obj~body;
  CODE...........92.901
  RC.............92
  ERRORTEXT......OLE error

Running the script repeatedly will result in errors on different records and a different count of records.  But, it seems to always be when getting the body of the email.  

After much testing, I discovered that the error occurred mostly when something else was going on on the system.  While the script is running (the Outlook folder I process has over 900 emails and it takes awhile for the program to run), if I start some other program (e.g., Freecell) or interact with another program (e.g., scrolling an editor) the errors will begin occurring. My program handles the errors by putting out a messsage and skipping the email. When I caused some other activity on the system, I would usually get three or four errors in a row.  Then, when the other activity settled down, the errors would no longer be occurring.

I have included a stripped down version of my program that will reproduce the errors.  However, as I was developing the stripped down version, the more I stripped it down, the less the errors would occur.

Originally, I thought it was an error in Outlook.  I reproduced the program in VB and tried it as an outlook macro.  I could not get the failure with the VB.

The system I am running on is a Dell dual processor running Windows XP professional.  I am running ooREXX version 3.1.0.



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>Comment By: Mark Miesfeld (miesfeld)
Date: 2007-03-08 07:02

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John,

Thanks for the detailed report.  I'll work on this and see if I can find
the root cause of the problem.

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