auto remove attachment and place in a specific folder

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Kelly

Hi group.

I am using Outlook exchange server 2000

I have a little experience in VBA for Excel and Word but I
have never done any in Outlook.

What I want to do is set up a rule or situation where if a
specific user receives an email with a specific name or
message it automatically removes the Excel attachment and
places it into a specific folder then deletes the message.

Some things that are a constant (in case this helps with
possible options) are:

The email subject field data
The email message body data

The attached Excel file name will vary.

Any ideas on how I might begin to figure this out? Is
their some existing ability to do this within Outlook that
I am not aware of?

Kelly
 
You can sort of use Outlook's Rules to do this- but it
will move the whole message & attached file to a certain
folder within Outlook, not separate the attached file.

In Outlook 2000 it's TOOLS:RULES WIZARD.
You're going to create a new rule to "check messages when
they arrive", "with specific words in the subject"
and "which has an attachment". Then "move it to the
specified folder".

I don't know if this will suffice for you; if you want to
strip out the attached file and put it in a folder
(directory) on the hard drive, this will take more than a
little bit of VBA programming.


Hope that helps,

-Andrew Cushen
 
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