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Strip selected attachments and save to folder

Removing attachments from your emails will reduce your PST file size and network footprint, but now you're left with attachments and no way to reference where they came from.

We need a way to strip attachments from a set of emails, but hyperlink to them so that we can retrieve or reference the files later, so (surprise!) we'll use VBA, both as an event handler and a one-off procedure to do this.

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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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SearchBox Week, Day 2

The search term I chose today was "flag messages", so here's some code to work programmatically with flags in Outlook.

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