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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming VBA / January 2007How do I script to change the subject line of incoming mail?
I wish to create a script to alter the subject line of incoming mail to remove certain character strings. Google has not been much help...any suggestions or guidence is appreciatied One way is to use a "run a script" rule, a Rules Wizard action that invokes a VBA procedure with a MailItem or MeetingItem as its parameter, then uses that item in the code: Sub RunAScriptRuleRoutine(MyMail As MailItem) Dim strID As String Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem strID = MyMail.EntryID Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set olMail = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID) ' do stuff with olMail, e.g. olMail.SUbject = "whatever you want the subject to be" olMaIl.Save Set olMail = Nothing Set olNS = Nothing End Sub See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/zaphtml.htm#ol2002 for another example.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I wish to create a script to alter the subject line of incoming mail to > remove certain character strings. > > Google has not been much help...any suggestions or guidence is appreciatied Thanks Sue. I'll give it a shot Good Morning Sue, I am new to scripting in VBA but I have done some vbs scripting. We receive about 25,000 faxes and they are sent to an Outlook Mailbox. The subject of the e-mails contain the senders fax number. We would like to have a rule change the fax number to the customers name when the e-mail arrives. I tried your code below with the changes below but I am unable to get it to work. Would you be so kind as to help me through this? Sub RunAScriptRuleRoutine(MyMail As MailItem) Dim strID As String Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem strID = MyMail.EntryID Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set olMail = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID) ' do stuff with olMail, e.g. If olMail.Subject = "555-1212" Then olMail.Subject = "New Customer" olMail.Save End If Set olMail = Nothing Set olNS = Nothing End Sub Thanks In advance > One way is to use a "run a script" rule, a Rules Wizard action that invokes a VBA procedure with a MailItem or MeetingItem as its parameter, then uses that item in the code: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > > Google has not been much help...any suggestions or guidence is appreciatied What in particular doesn't work? Did you check the VBA basics at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vbabasics.htm? SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Good Morning Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> > >> > Google has not been much help...any suggestions or guidence is appreciatied I did go through that document. Could the problem be that if the faxes are not going to the default inbox but rather than another user account mailbox? Do I need to make changes in the script to reflect that? Thanks in advance. > What in particular doesn't work? Did you check the VBA basics at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vbabasics.htm? > [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > >> > > >> > Google has not been much help...any suggestions or guidence is appreciatied The code you cited works with an Outlook rule, which means it affects only messages coming into your own mailbox. To handle items in another mailbox with Outlook code, you would have to leave a machine running 24/7 and use a different coding approach -- the MAPIFolder.Items.ItemAdd event. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I did go through that document. Could the problem be that if the faxes are > not going to the default inbox but rather than another user account mailbox? [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] >> >> >> >> See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/zaphtml.htm#ol2002 for another example. >> >> >I wish to create a script to alter the subject line of incoming mail to >> >> > remove certain character strings. >> >> > >> >> > Google has not been much help...any suggestions or guidence is appreciatied |
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