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Pyramid 36 - 13 Mar 2008 02:23 GMT

OL 2007, SP1

For some reason, certain outbound email gets flagged as Unread. I use email
rules, but couldn't find any rules that seem to have any bearing specifically
on marking messages as Unread when sending.

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MadDog - 13 Mar 2008 03:54 GMT

I'm also using Outlook 2007, SP1. I have email from a certain account that I
want kept separate from all my other email. It was easy enough to do with
Rules on the Inbox side, but am having trouble on the Sent side.

Instead of "Moving" Sent email to a specified folder, I could only move a
COPY, giving me 2 copies of the same email. So I went to Tools > Options >
Email Options, and turned off "Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder,"
and created rules for putting my Sent email where I want it.

The problem that this now creates is that ALL my sent email is now marked
"Unread" since I guess in theory it's really a copy.

There doesn't seem to be a canned Rule to do this automatically, Like
Pyramid 36, I want to have all my Sent email automatically marked as "Read."

How do we do this? Thanks.

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Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] - 13 Mar 2008 07:23 GMT

You can do that with VBA code. Try sample #3:

http://www.vboffice.net/sample.html?mnu=2&pub=6&lang=en&smp=54&cmd=showitem

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Am Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:54:01 -0700 schrieb MadDog:

> I'm also using Outlook 2007, SP1. I have email from a certain account that I
> want kept separate from all my other email. It was easy enough to do with
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> How do we do this? Thanks.

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MadDog - 13 Mar 2008 17:33 GMT

OK. I'm a dope. I don't know how to use the VBA code. Can you point me in the
right direction on how to utilize this?

Thanks.

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Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] - 14 Mar 2008 07:25 GMT

Open the VBA environment (alt+f11), then the project explorer (ctrl+r),
double click "ThisOutlookSession". Copy *one*of the samples into
ThisOutlookSession. Click save, close the environment. Ensure that VBA will
be executed: Tools/Macros/Security, set to medium or low.

I updated sample 3, please copy it again.

At the bottom of the sample you see a Select Case statement. For instance,
if the sending account is called "mvp" then the item is stored in the inbox'
subfolder called "ablage", if the accoutn is called "sample", it's stored in
"another sample folder".

You have to replace my sample account name(s) by yours and the name(s) of
your folder(s). if you just want to track one account, you can delete the
second Case (also the following Set Subfolder line). And if you want to
track more accounts, just add the cases.

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Am Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:33:04 -0700 schrieb MadDog:

> OK. I'm a dope. I don't know how to use the VBA code. Can you point me in the
> right direction on how to utilize this?
>
> Thanks.

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MadDog - 14 Mar 2008 20:19 GMT

Hi Michael,

Thanks for responding.

I did as you posted and what happened was ... nothing.

I don't know how to manually run this. The only thing I couldn't quite
follow was in your post:

> Ensure that VBA will be executed: Tools/Macros/Security, set to medium or low.

In Outlook 2007, Tools > Macros > Security takes you to the "Trust Center"
and I don't have a clue which one affects VBA.

It seems to me that a dopey end user (like me) really struggles how to
figure out how to make some of this stuff work, when we just want to "run the
program" and do what we need to do. I'm just not technically proficient
enough to be able to take something and do it without detailed step by step
directions. How to handle VBA and the Trust Center are great examples of this.

I'm stuck.

Glenn

> I updated sample 3, please copy it again.
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Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] - 15 Mar 2008 07:51 GMT

The mentioned steps lead you directly to the macro security. There're four
possible settings, use one of the lower two.

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Am Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:19:00 -0700 schrieb MadDog:

> Hi Michael,
>
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>> second Case (also the following Set Subfolder line). And if you want to
>> track more accounts, just add the cases.

<http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6>

>> Am Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:33:04 -0700 schrieb MadDog:
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>>> Thanks.

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Brian Tillman - 13 Mar 2008 16:19 GMT

> For some reason, certain outbound email gets flagged as Unread. I
> use email rules, but couldn't find any rules that seem to have any
> bearing specifically on marking messages as Unread when sending.

If you use a rule to move outgoing messages to a folder, they will be marked
unread in the destination folder.

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