Attach outgoing email to contact automatically

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Ryan Zwahr

I was wondering how difficult it would be to have outlook
automatically attach emails to contacts without user intervention? Is
there a way programatically to have outlook attach emails to contacts
when the messages are sent to them. These contacts are in a shared
public folder, and I don't want to try and hack around to make a
public journal because it's too messy. I'm kind of trying to
duplicate the attach function that is in ACT, since the users I work
with are used to that. Of course the way we have been doing it is to
copy and paste the email from sent items after it has been sent, but I
would like to have it do it automagically. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ryan
 
You would need a mechanism for putting all the email messages into a public
mail folder. (Auto CC with a rule?) Once you do that, you can set an
Activities group for the contacts folder to show the public mail folder on
the contact Activities tab.
 
Sue said:
You would need a mechanism for putting all the email messages into a
public mail folder. (Auto CC with a rule?) Once you do that, you can
set an Activities group for the contacts folder to show the public
mail folder on the contact Activities tab.
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Sue, that works great - Just out of curiosity, how does Outlook know
which activities to filter out and display on the form, is it based on
email address or name or a combination of both?

Ryan
 
I haven't done any testing in that area, but I'm pretty sure it's the email
address.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue said:
I haven't done any testing in that area, but I'm pretty sure it's the
email address.
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I verified that and it is the email address. Outlook will associate
the email with the contact if an email matches the address of the
contacts email, email 2 or email 3 property.

Thanks,
Ryan
 
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