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Close/Save outlook messages


Is it possible to close outlook and save any draft messages using batch? I know it can be done using VBS (in fact I've already done it) but my boss has requested I do it in batch script.

I so far have:

@echo off
taskkill /IM outlook.exe

which obviously just kills the entire process but it doesn't save any drafts and will just wait with the prompt if there is one.


Solution

  • Unfortunately, batch cannot interact with GUIs, and Outlook has no command line option to save drafts.

    However, since you have already written a working script in VBS, I recommend writing a batch wrapper script for it and giving that to your boss.