I don't want to Move a COPY of sent messages, I want to MOVE it and keep my SENT clean

[Phillips]

I have found out how to move a copy of a message, based on content to a
given folder, what I want to do is to move the message, and not leave a copy
in the "SENT" folder.

How can I do this?

It is Outlook 2002

Thanks
Phil

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

If you have a handle to the original message, which you must to be
able to execute a Move, just delete the original item after the move.

 

[Guest]

Hmmmm... When I do a move, the item gets deleted from the source. I just use the Move method.

 

[Guest]

Maybe you don't have permissions to delete the item and aren't trapping the error? Just a thought.

 

[Amit Basu]

Hi,

I have a similar problem. I want to save a copy of an email that I send
to a particular folder in my Public Folders. I can move the message
easily but that's not what I want. I tried this:

Set Item.SaveSentMessageFolder = oFolder

oFolder is evaluated as the correct folder. But this line generates an
Outlook error - The Operation Failed. I don't want to delete anything
from my Sent Items folder. I don't even care whether it gets saved there
as well or not. I do need to save a SENT version of this MailItem in a
specific folder however.

I am using Outlook 2000 with Exchange 5.5.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The SaveSentMessageFolder must be in the same store as your default Inbox. Where is the folder where you want to keep a copy? Have you thought about using a rule to handle this?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[ME]

All this crap could had been avoided if Micro$oft had put an option in
Outlook to save Sent Items and Draft directly to an IMAP folder, just like
Outlook Express does.
Nothing makes sense anymore. It's sad that we all have to waste our time
with this kind of non-sense.


The SaveSentMessageFolder must be in the same store as your default Inbox.
Where is the folder where you want to keep a copy? Have you thought about
using a rule to handle this?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Amit Basu]

Sue,

The folder that I was trying with was not in the same Store as my Inbox.
So that was the problem with that. I cannot use a Rule to achieve this
as the folder that I want to save it in has to be determined
dynamically. So unless I can plug in code while defining Rules, I can't
do it.
I am thinking that the only way to do this is through a CDO appliaction.
Is that correct?

TIA,
Amit.


The SaveSentMessageFolder must be in the same store as your default
Inbox.
Where is the folder where you want to keep a copy? Have you thought
about
using a rule to handle this?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You could use VBA code to monitor the Sent Items folder for new items and then move them to the desired folder.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Phillips]

Sue,
Could you provide a "sample" of this?

Thanks,
Phil



You could use VBA code to monitor the Sent Items folder for new items and
then move them to the desired folder.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

No time to write code samples this week, but basically, you'd use the MAPIFolder.Items.ItemAdd method, as shown at http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/quarexe.htm

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Amit Basu]

Sue,

I am sorry, I couldn't find an appropriate sample on this site. Can you
give me some more pointers please?

Thanks.
Amit.


Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP


From: Phillips
Date Posted: 11/30/2003 3:14:00 PM

Sue,
Could you provide a "sample" of this?

Thanks,
Phil


From: Sue Mosher [MVP]
Date Posted: 11/30/2003 1:56:00 PM

You could use VBA code to monitor the Sent Items folder for new items
and then move them to the desired folder.