rename msg file automaticly

[Martin]

I have made some shortcuts in the quicklaunch bar to mailfolders from
my projects in Explorer. When I drag and drop emails from Outlook 2003
on those shortcuts, the mails are archived on the right place.

At the company I work, this is the only way to archive...

Can anyone make a macro, that adds the date the mail was created, and
the sender to the msg file, somewhere between dragging and dropping?
( <date>-<name>-<subject>.msg )

Thanks!

 

[Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]]

If you mean you are dragging e-mails to folders in Windows Explorer, then no,
you cannot effect any changes on the e-mail as it has "left the Outlook
building".

Thank you, thank you very much.

 

[strychtur]

So then how can this be achieved? I need to develop something that will
rename an email file to <date>-<name>-<subject>. either in Outlook or after
the email has been moved to a folder. I would prefer the later. The app will
go through a folder of .msg files and rename them.

Thanks for your help
Strychtur

 

[Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]]

When exactly are these e-mails getting saved to the file system? If you have
code that's already archiving the e-mails, can you not change the file name
to whatever you want at that point?

Otherwise, if you need to rename a file in a folder when something happens
in Outlook, you'll need to either know where the file is so that you can grab
it and rename it, or develop a file system watcher robot that can perhaps
work in tandem with Outlook to rename those files.

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