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I am looking for suggestions for an auto responder for outlook. I have a
product that I wish to sell on the Internet from my website. When a user
purchases this product w/ PayPal I will then receive an instant payment
notification.(IPN) I need to pragmatically parse the purchasing email
address from the IPN and reply to the purchaser attaching a word document to
the email. All of this needs to take place automatically without any user
intervention. Weekly the word doc will change but that is all. Any
suggestion would be most appreciated. I am a asp.net programmer and I
understand the code but not sure where to start.

thanks,
88caddy
 
The exchange server is out, I am using an outside email account from my ISP. Would there be any advantage in incorporating an Access database to house the return address? Maybe parsing and inserting the address as they come in and every 15 minutes or so fire off a routine to create the emails and attach the doc file and update the table checking off the sent address.

thanks in advance
 
Thanks for your help.
I will give it a try and let you know.

thanks again,
bob g


Eric Legault said:
Sure, you could do it with a database, but it is not immediate and is
probably more work that it's worth. However, options 1 and 2 will more than
suffice for your needs. Option 1 is more reliable than option 2, although
the latter can still be used if you check all mails in the Inbox and move the
ones that have been processed. Any messages still remaining that satisfies
your criteria if they weren't captured by the Item_Add event due to a large
batch of incoming e-mails can always get processed again the next time the
routine fires.
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ISP. Would there be any advantage in incorporating an Access database to
house the return address? Maybe parsing and inserting the address as they
come in and every 15 minutes or so fire off a routine to create the emails
and attach the doc file and update the table checking off the sent address.
 
Sorry, I should have clarified my last statement:

Any unprocessed messages not handled by an Item_Add event will have to be
manually retrieved from the Items collection of your Inbox folder, as they
will not be passed as objects via the Item argument of the event because they
are not new messages any more. You will have to run your criteria logic
against remaining messages to see if you need to process them.

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