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December 12th 06, 03:52 PM
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Saving Attachments using VBA and parsing information from subject/body
I am working on some code to automatically save attachments based on
information in the email message. I have found plenty on information on the basics of saving attachments, but I am looking to get a little more advanced. First off, I want to stay away from rules all together and do it entirely in VBA if possible. What I want to do is if certain "triggers" are contained in the subject or body, then the attachments will be saved to the local drive. I haven't decide yet what i will use as the trigger, but lets just say if the subject or body contained the phrase "%%SAVE", using the next 10 characters after that phrase, the file(s) will be saved to a directory named whatever those 10 characters are. Is it possible to use VBA to seach the subject or body for that trigger? I want it so the trigger can be located anywhere and not in a specfic place like the begining of the text. Thanks in advance. 
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December 12th 06, 04:12 PM
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Saving Attachments using VBA and parsing information from subject/body
You would have to save the attachment to the drive first, then use the methods of the application appropriate for each type of file to search its content. All that can be done in VBA, but the only Outlook portion of the project is saving the attachment to the file system.
-- Sue 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 wrote in message ups.com... I am working on some code to automatically save attachments based on information in the email message. I have found plenty on information on the basics of saving attachments, but I am looking to get a little more advanced. First off, I want to stay away from rules all together and do it entirely in VBA if possible. What I want to do is if certain "triggers" are contained in the subject or body, then the attachments will be saved to the local drive. I haven't decide yet what i will use as the trigger, but lets just say if the subject or body contained the phrase "%%SAVE", using the next 10 characters after that phrase, the file(s) will be saved to a directory named whatever those 10 characters are. Is it possible to use VBA to seach the subject or body for that trigger? I want it so the trigger can be located anywhere and not in a specfic place like the begining of the text. Thanks in advance.
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December 12th 06, 07:30 PM
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Saving Attachments using VBA and parsing information from subject/body
I'm sorry. I should have went into more detail. I dont need to search
in the attachment for the trigger just the body or subject of the email message. Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: You would have to save the attachment to the drive first, then use the methods of the application appropriate for each type of file to search its content. All that can be done in VBA, but the only Outlook portion of the project is saving the attachment to the file system. -- Sue 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 wrote in message ups.com... I am working on some code to automatically save attachments based on information in the email message. I have found plenty on information on the basics of saving attachments, but I am looking to get a little more advanced. First off, I want to stay away from rules all together and do it entirely in VBA if possible. What I want to do is if certain "triggers" are contained in the subject or body, then the attachments will be saved to the local drive. I haven't decide yet what i will use as the trigger, but lets just say if the subject or body contained the phrase "%%SAVE", using the next 10 characters after that phrase, the file(s) will be saved to a directory named whatever those 10 characters are. Is it possible to use VBA to seach the subject or body for that trigger? I want it so the trigger can be located anywhere and not in a specfic place like the begining of the text. Thanks in advance.
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December 12th 06, 07:56 PM
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Saving Attachments using VBA and parsing information from subject/body
In that case, you can use the Instr() function to parse the Subject or Body property.
-- Sue 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 wrote in message ps.com... I'm sorry. I should have went into more detail. I dont need to search in the attachment for the trigger just the body or subject of the email message. Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: You would have to save the attachment to the drive first, then use the methods of the application appropriate for each type of file to search its content. All that can be done in VBA, but the only Outlook portion of the project is saving the attachment to the file system. -- Sue 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 wrote in message ups.com... I am working on some code to automatically save attachments based on information in the email message. I have found plenty on information on the basics of saving attachments, but I am looking to get a little more advanced. First off, I want to stay away from rules all together and do it entirely in VBA if possible. What I want to do is if certain "triggers" are contained in the subject or body, then the attachments will be saved to the local drive. I haven't decide yet what i will use as the trigger, but lets just say if the subject or body contained the phrase "%%SAVE", using the next 10 characters after that phrase, the file(s) will be saved to a directory named whatever those 10 characters are. Is it possible to use VBA to seach the subject or body for that trigger? I want it so the trigger can be located anywhere and not in a specfic place like the begining of the text. Thanks in advance.
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