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Save Outlook 2003 E-mail Attachments Automatically

In Outlook 2007 Add-in: Saving Outlook e-mail attachments automatically, author Robert Martim demonstrates how to write an add-in for Outlook 2007 using VSTO that saves file attachments on incoming e-mails automatically.

I've demonstrated the same using VBA in Outlook 2003 below. It uses the stock event code I use when creating event handlers in Outlook.

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Automatically triage emails by sender name

If you want to sort incoming emails by sender, a popular way to sort them is to move them to individual subfolders depending on the sender's name. I've written some event code based on Stock Outlook VBA Event Code that can do that for you programmatically.

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Save all attachments from selected folder, continued

In Save all attachments from selected folder, I posted a method for scrubbing an Outlook mail folder of file attachments in order to reduce your network footprint (or make your PST file smaller).

A couple of commenters asked if there's a way to make sure the filename is unique. There are two ways (I know of) to accomplish this goal, and we'll explore both in this post.

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Save all attachments from selected folder

If you ever needed to save all the attachments from a selected mail folder to a folder on your hard drive, here's one technique.

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Get Default Folder Items Collection

In Outlook, you might have a need to grab the items collection for any of the default folders. For example, if you wanted to iterate through a folder and set flags, create reminders, or move emails based on subject, you'd want a reference to the Items collection for that folder.

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