Checking attachments as they arrive

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Every time one (or more) e-mails arrive I need to be able to check the name

of an attachment and if it contains certain words, we'll just use example

as the word for this, I want to mark it as read and move it to a folder. I

can use either a rule or vba. The problem I'm having with the rule is that I

don't see one that will read the attachment name as new mail arrives. With

vba the only possible way I can see to check attachments is to loop through

each and every e-mail in the Inbox instead of just unread mail. This isn't

quite possible as the user I am creating this for has about 65,000 e-mails in

his inbox over 7 years and would be quite adverse to changing his system. I

can fire the newmail or newmailex event, but I can't find a way to filter

attachments from only Unread mail. Any suggestions? I could probably even use

a .find .findnext loop but can't locate the syntax for unread mail.

When you lose your mind, you free your life.
 
Anyway, so after a couple more hours of searching I discovered the simple

fact that I can set outlook to run a script from a rule, so now I just have

it running my attachment checking script on each new e-mail as it arrives.

"ben" wrote:


> Every time one (or more) e-mails arrive I need to be able to check the name
> of an attachment and if it contains certain words, we'll just use example
> as the word for this, I want to mark it as read and move it to a folder. I
> can use either a rule or vba. The problem I'm having with the rule is that I
> don't see one that will read the attachment name as new mail arrives. With
> vba the only possible way I can see to check attachments is to loop through
> each and every e-mail in the Inbox instead of just unread mail. This isn't
> quite possible as the user I am creating this for has about 65,000 e-mails in
> his inbox over 7 years and would be quite adverse to changing his system. I
> can fire the newmail or newmailex event, but I can't find a way to filter
> attachments from only Unread mail. Any suggestions? I could probably even use
> a .find .findnext loop but can't locate the syntax for unread mail.

> > When you lose your mind, you free your life.
>
 
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