How do I automatically convert emails into text documents?

[Guest]

couple of questions actually,

first, is there a way to set up a tool in outlook (using 2000) to
automatically save emails that meet certain criteria (who it's from in my
case) as a text file?

second, when I played with the rule wizard to put these emails into a
folder, it kept turning my rule into a 'client only' type. why? what
criteria does it use? previous rules that I have made have not become client
only and ran whether or not I was logged in (which in this case is important,
because I need the tool to run 24/7).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=735 for some basic code
that shows how to save an item. You can't use the "run a script" rule method
in Outlook 2000, so you'll need to adapt the code to work with the
MAPIFolder.Items.ItemAdd event to monitor the Inbox (or another folder) for
new items. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/zaphtml.htm for an example
of that event handler.

See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/serverbased.htm for informaiton on what
makes a server-side rule.