title: Understanding Microsoft's CDO.Message offline behavior
body: <p>I'm using the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa488364.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CDO.Message</a> class to create and send an email from a Visual FoxPro application.  I've tested that it works while the user is connected to the internet, and <em>it even seems to work when I send while disconnected from the network</em>, it simply gets sent when the client gets reconnected.  One issue I have with the <code>.Send()</code> method of the CDO.Message class is that it does not return any success/fail value (although the object will throw an exception if it cannot send).  The email message never appears to be waiting in the user's Outlook "Outbox" or anything obvious like that, but yet it seems to be waiting somewhere for a web connection at which time it sends.</p>
  
  <p>The question I have is: <strong>Where does the CDO.Message email I've called <code>.Send()</code> on go while the application is offline?</strong> And does it have an eventual timeout/fail condition?</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to avoid "<a href="http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/coincidence" rel="nofollow noreferrer">programming by coincidence</a>" any clues on how CDO.Message works would be helpful.</p>