Greating wise ones. I have a script that creates a MAPI session to a microsoft exchange server to scrape through emails. The code works great unless the Exchange server is not available. When this happens I get a popup which reads "Your microsoft exchange server is unavailable" and the script hangs until I click OK on the popup. I was hoping that someone else had run into this before and could tell me how to disable the popup so I can just capture the error and send myself an alert. The connection code is listed below. Any help as always is greatly appreciated. 
    my ($server, $alias, $rconn) = @_;    # connect to mailbox of CN $
+alias using server $server
    my $mapikey = "$server\n$alias";
    my $err;
    my $session = Win32::OLE->new(qw(Win32::OLE->new(qw(MAPI.Session))
+)) or die Win32::OLE->LastError();
    # Try to logon with dynamic profile under current account.
    # This may need a reasonable current CDO on your machine.
    my $mapi = $session->Logon(undef,undef,undef,1,undef,undef,$mapike
+y);
    return $err if $err = Win32::OLE->LastError();

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In reply to How can I disable popup error when creating a MAPI.Sessio? by boat73

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