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I've added a custom column called "Ext" to my Inbox view in "View / View Settings / Columns...". Using VBA, I'd like to set that value to "***" for every email received from an external sender.

With some other code I got from this site, the subroutine below fires at the right time, and I see the message box when the email comes from outside my org, and I don't see it if it's from inside my org.

But nothing I've tried will fill in the new column in my Inbox view. I assume I'm missing the relationship between adding a custom column and creating a user-defined property. Any help would be much appreciated.

Private Sub objNewMailItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
If Item.Class <> olMail Then Exit Sub
If (InStr(Item.SenderEmailAddress, "@")) Then
MsgBox ("Out: " & Item.SenderEmailAddress)
End If
End Sub
 
That code is just checking the address - There is a code sample on this page that shows how to write fields
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Create a custom field for Outlook messages

How to create a custom field to mark messages that were responded to in Microsoft Outlook.
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(Yeah, I know the page is looking goofy - fixing that next).
 
I'll try that now. Thank you for the reply.

And I'll use this thread to let you know that in the last couple of years, almost all of my hard VBA problems have been solved by one of your posts, so I want to thank you for that as well!
 
It worked. I'm not sure what I missed before, as I tried numerous variations of UserProperties calls. (I should have actually included my various attempts in my original post, instead of just showing the placeholder MsgBox.)

Using your post as a guide, I ended up with the following. After adding a custom field called "Ext" to my Inbox, every "sent from an external sender" email now shows "***" in the "Ext" column.

Code: 
Private objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Private WithEvents objNewMailItems As Outlook.Items

Private Sub Application_Startup()
    Dim objMyInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

    Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set objMyInbox = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
    Set objNewMailItems = objMyInbox.Items
    Set objMyInbox = Nothing
End Sub

Private Sub objNewMailItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
    If Item.Class <> olMail Then Exit Sub
    If (InStr(Item.SenderEmailAddress, "@")) Then
        Dim objProp As Outlook.UserProperty
        Set objProp = Item.UserProperties.Add("Ext", olText, True)
        objProp.Value = "***"
        Item.Save
    End If
End Sub
 
Last one. I found that this is a better look than "***". Just make the custom field "Yes/No" and "Icon".

Code: 
Private Sub objNewMailItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
    If Item.Class <> olMail Then Exit Sub
    If (InStr(Item.SenderEmailAddress, "@")) Then
        Set objProp1 = Item.UserProperties.Add("Ext", olYesNo, True)
        objProp1.Value = True
        Item.Save
    End If
End Sub
 
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