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Is there any way to automatically connect to a link within an outlook email
message? I have a known web address that I would like to automatically
connect to when message arrives. Any thoughts out there???
 
You could accomplish this using VBA. I don't know if you have any programming
experience though. Behind the office suite lies a programming language called
visual basic for applications (VBA). You could program it to react in this
way or even attach it to a rule.
 
Thanks for the reply, and no I don't know VB I was hoping someone would have
had a simlar situation so I could set it up. The only variable that I think
occurs is after the web address it is assigned to a specific acconut was
hoping for something simple with maybe wildcards might do the trick
 
I'm not sure I understand your question.

Does this have anything to do with BCM?

You want to send an Outlook user an email and have Outlook launch a
browser when the message arrives?
 
Not Spam
I receive email from a vendor which includes a link starting with their web
page addressthen an extension to a specific for they have posted when it is
selected you are given the account. I am being scooped by others because they
respond faster through an automated task, which is what I'm trying to achieve.
 
Why not simply have an alert when you receive email from that vendor?

The browser popping up will only be useful if you happen to be sitting
at the PC with when the email arrives. An alert, on the other hand, can
fire on your cell phone, and so on.

I can think of a neat application like that to respond to auction
emails and to automatically bid on items, but it would be hard to
generalize such a feature for a wide audience. And keep it safe so that
it couldn't be hijacked to run malicious code.

If you want to open the browser to the url in the email, extract an
account number and respond to it, then you'll require some custom code.
That's why they added VBA to Outlook, to allow for all such unique
specific features.
 
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