I have an Exchange server public folder set up with a custom form.
The folder assistant rules work nicely to forward the posted messages
to the appropriate list of recipients, based on the value in one of
the user-defined fields of the form (using the Advanced settings in
the rule editor).

However there is no option to forward a _link_ to the posted message -
the entire message gets forwarded. The result is that a message lands
up in the recipients' Inboxes using the default form, and they can
then proceed to reply on the message in their Inbox folders, which is
not desired.

I do not have the option of setting up services on the Exchange
server, or accessing the Organisational Forms Library.

There does not appear to be any way to forward a link to the posted
message, so that the recipient opens the item in the public folder?

The only solution I could think of was something along the following
lines:
1. In the Save or Write event of the custom form, spawn a new item
2. Create a link to the current (saved) item in this new item through
code
3. Post the item, perhaps to another dummy folder

The folder assistant rules of this second folder should fire, and send
the item with the clickable link to the appropriate recipients.
Recipients should get that nice email with a clickable icon linking to
the original saved item using the custom form.

I have to use folder rules because the recipient list for each given
value of the custom field needs to be maintainable by the user.

Will this work? The problem I can foresee is that someone will have
to periodically clean up the dummy folder containing all those link
emails.

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Sriram