How do I detect if a folder is public?

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Thanks. Excuse my unfamiliarity with Outlook, but;

1) "Mailbox - user name" or "All Public Folders" means public and "Personal
Folders" means local?

2) If "Mailbox - user name" is found, can I still go upwards to "All Public
Folders"? This might be a more definitive test rather than checking
Left(MAPIFolder.Parent.Name,9) = "Mailbox - ".

Thanks Ken
Mark



Ken Slovak - said:
Keep using MAPIFolder.Parent until you either come to "Personal
Folders", "Mailbox - user name" or "All Public Folders".
MAPIFolder.Parent.Name gives you that.

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Mark B said:
How do I detect from code if a folder is public?

Thanks
Mark
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"All Public Folders" would be in the Exchange public folders tree.
"Personal Folders" would be a PST file.
"Mailbox - user name" would be an Exchange mailbox.

I'd use the InStr function to check each folder name to see if one of
those strings was present. This could be done in a Select Case block
for example.

Each of those strings would represent a different Outlook
InformationStore. You couldn't go directly from one to the other. The
hierarchy would be as follows:

Mailbox or PST -----> Inbox, etc.
Public Folders ------> All Public Folders ------> various public
folders

Above any of the Mailbox, PST or Public Folders would be
Application.NameSpace.Folders.

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Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press
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