Rules and Custom Actions

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David Hirschfeld - 22 Sep 2003 07:44 GMT

I would like to set up a rule in the Rules Wizard that
automatically creates and saves to a text file on my hard
drive the subject and body text of specific emails as
they are received. What is the best way to accomplish
this? It looked to me that Custom Actions in the rules
wizard might be the way to go, but I can't find any
documentation on what a Custom Action is or how to create
on.

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 22 Sep 2003 20:22 GMT

Custom Actions are for advanced programmers; they require C++ or Dephi and knowledge of Extended MAPI. You don't need a custom action for this, though, just normal VBA programming. You can drive it from the ItemAdd event, monitoring the Inbox -- see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/quarexe.htm for a simple example.

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> I would like to set up a rule in the Rules Wizard that
> automatically creates and saves to a text file on my hard
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> documentation on what a Custom Action is or how to create
> on.

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