Change subject for new e-mails only.

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Hi!

I have written a VBA script that counts the number of words in the e-mail body and adds the word count to the subject. The problem is that this fires for all e-mails: Replies, Reply All, Forward and New. I would like this to fire ONLY for new e-mails.

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Check the subject line for RE: or FW: ? That would be the easiest, as long as people don't compose new email you with a subject of "re: our call" (I'm guilty of that now and again.)

Looking for more than one message id in the header will also work - but some mail clients remove the message id.

I'd guess the false positive rate would be able the same either way... and checking the subject will be the fastest / most efficient.

For incoming mail using a rule -
If left(oItem.subject, 4) = "RE: " or left(oItem.subject, 4) = "FW: " then
Exit sub
End if


if you run the macro manually on all messages -

If left(oItem.subject, 4) = "RE: " or left(oItem.subject, 4) = "FW: " then

next oItem

Else

'your code


End if
 
Diane Poremsky said:
Check the subject line for RE: or FW: ? That would be the easiest, as long as people don't compose new email you with a subject of "re: our call" (I'm guilty of that now and again.)

Looking for more than one message id in the header will also work - but some mail clients remove the message id.

I'd guess the false positive rate would be able the same either way... and checking the subject will be the fastest / most efficient.

For incoming mail using a rule -
If left(oItem.subject, 4) = "RE: " or left(oItem.subject, 4) = "FW: " then
Exit sub
End if


if you run the macro manually on all messages -

If left(oItem.subject, 4) = "RE: " or left(oItem.subject, 4) = "FW: " then

next oItem

Else

'your code


End if
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Thank you Diane. I wasn't sure if there is a consistent way to check if the e-mail draft, upon writing or sending is New or a Reply. This however works well and accomplishes the task at hand!
 
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