Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

Hi All,

I need to have a MS outlook plugin using which i can move any mail to a shared location on the LAN. It would really be great if someone can direct me to the same. Or is there any easy way to code the same of my own.

TIA

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

will a vba macro do? when you say plug in, I have several macro's assigned to buttons in outlook for moving / forwarding and doing things with groups of emails

it depends how you are looking to move them, do you want to select a group of them and press a button , do you want a rule that runs when they are delivered or something else?

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

a quick scribble code -

see here for some explanation -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ffice.11).aspx

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

Thanks jg007,

M looking for any code/VBA using which i can see any control in my outlook, and when i select any mail and click on this control the selected item should be copied to a pre-specified location on LAN, such that any other search engine can then index that. I would try with the code you have already published. If you have any other approach for the same please let me know.

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

Also please tell me how to map this code to a button/control in outlook.

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

I have amended the code slightly, as I have it it save the message with the subject , if it is there already it asks if you want to overwrite it, that is not really the best way of doing it as you may have several messages with the same name but I will leave it to you to decide how you want to handle that

to use a macro as a button, right click the toolbar and select customise then commands, scroll to macro's and then just drag the macro to the toolbar , if you want to change the icon or name just right click the icon in the task bar while you are on the customise menu, the options are pretty much self explanatory

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

please remember that the code I have posted is not perfect or complete but is more a guidance for how you can do it, also if you google you may find better code :)

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

Thanks Buddy for your quick reply, I tried your code, but i saw an error msg as shown in the attached snapshot. Seems macros are not enabled. I did lots of googling to enable these but couldn't find a workaround. I have tried "Security lavel settings" and "Digital certificates". Would be great if you have anything for the same.

Thanks

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re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

depending on your version of office you will need to run something like -

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\selfcert.exe

you will then create a self certified certificate for yourcode and you can then go to 'tools ' and then ' digital signature ' , as selfcert will show, the certificate is not valid for distribution

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

also see -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa141471.aspx

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Thanks a lot buddy for your help,
The macro is working fine. I have made the following change in the code published by you in order to take care of the special characters in the subject of the mail
<code>
charList = Array(92, 47, 58, 42, 63, 34, 60, 62, 124)
For counter = 0 To UBound(charList)
intCounter = 1
Do Until intCounter = 0

intCounter = InStr(1, subj, Chr(charList(counter)))
If intCounter > 0 And Not IsNull(intCounter) Then
Mid(subj, intCounter, 1) = " "
End If
</code>

Also, i know i am asking lots of questions, but could you please tell me if we can distribute this macro somehow such that the code is not visible to the recipients.

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

I have got the idea of how to distribute it.

Thanks

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

Hi,
Got one more question :)
I want to display few options to the user using the combo box (Using same macro) such that when user selects some value from the combobox the corresponding activity can take place. It would be great if you can share something on How i can display a combobox using outlook macro

re: Outlook plugin to save mail in shared location

Thanks buddy, this is done. Thanks a lot for all your help