Question

Attempt to reply or forward a message in OWA prompts error message

Outlook Web Access, Outlook error messages, IE7, Vista, OWA 2003, Outlook

When I attempt to reply or forward a message in Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003, I get a blank box with the following error message:

"Problems with this Web page might prevent it from being displayed properly or functioning properly. In the future, you can display this message by double-clicking the warning icon displayed in the status bar. Details: Line: 187 Char: 4 Error: Type mismatch Code: 0 URL:https://webmail.nmci.navy.mil/phillip.a.johnson/T-AKE%20Items/%20MAGAZINE%20SPRINKLER%20OPERATION%20TRAINING-2.EML?Cmd=open&mome=1&zoffset=480”

I'm running Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).

It sounds very much like the OQA code has been modified or custumized and the customizations are expecting a different type of value-- or are expecting a value and getting a NULL.

This sounds like a problem deep inside your installation of OWA. I've seen similar situations where OQA was customized to support more than one (the default) contact form and a servcie pack broke the customizations.

In asp/ASp.NET/VBSCRIPt a type mismatch is an error where a variable is passed to a function or subroutine that was expecting a different type of value. For example, passing a string ("mystring") when a number is expected (1002) by the function.