How to prompt Outlook 2003 to automatically save attachments

[Lobjeya]

Hey friends I have searched the information from various sites but still I am not able to get any related information for my query that I would want to get it solved as early as possible. I am using Outlook 2003 for the sending and receiving of mails and what I would like to have is that whenever I receive any kind of email from any user and if it contains the PDF folder, then I would want that the PDF folder gets automatically saved in the drive on my computer rather than getting saved on the Oulook folder. As I frequently receive PDF folders so it is really very difficult to go inside the Outook and search for each and every folder, so I would like to have a folder on my drive which will automatically save the PDF received through the Oulook.

[Sheenas]

For making this thing possible you will have to use some kind of VBA script edited in your own way just to get the files automatically saved in the folder on your drive. Open Outlook 2003 on your system and press ALT + F11 in order to open the VB editor and if you have all the knowledge about the scripts that it has been written on it, then you can edit it the way you want so as to get the attachments saved directly on to a folder in your drive. I would also suggest you to make use of a mail rule to trigger the macro that will help you in making this thing possible.

[Caiden]

Hello friends, I have checked out for the solution so as to bring the attachments directly inside the folder, you can do this by clicking on the project explorer window on the left side of the editor. Loacate the ThisOutlookSessioin by clicking to the plus symbol next to the project name, now set up your rule by clicking TOOLS and then tabbing to the RULES AND ALERTS and after that selecting the option NEW RULE. Once you have done the above go to the FROM PEOPLE OR DISTRIBUTION LIST and then select the value for the source names along with the email address by clicking to the link in the rule description window at the bottom. After setting the value click NEXT, after that you will get the option of save attachments and precisely you will have to select it on a particular folder on a drive.

[technika]

Hey why don’t you use the Outlook 2007 on your system instead of the Outlook 2003 because the option so as to save the attachments of PDf file of the Outlook directly into the folder onto your drive. Also more importantly it contains too many best feature as compared to the previous version of the Outlook . So all I can say that instead of breaking your head off in doing and editing the scripts for making this change why don’t directly go for the Oulook 2007 as it will certainly make your task more simpler.

[rashmi_ay]

I have manged to do some changes in the scripting of the Outlook 2003 through which I was comfortably abel to get the attachments directly go inside a folder on my drive. So I would suggest you to ollow this option and make the necessary changes carefully.

Sub SaveAttachments(myMail As MailItem)
Dim vFrom As String, vSubject As String
Dim vFile As Attachment
 
vFrom = myMail.ReceivedByName
vSubject = myMail.Subject
 
If myMail.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
        For i = 1 To myMail.Attachments.Count
            Set vFile = myMail.Attachments(i)
            If LCase(vFile.FileName) Like "*.pdf" Then
            vFile.SaveAsFile "C:\Test\" & vFile.FileName
            End If
        Next i
End If
 

Set myMail = Nothing
Set vFile = Nothing
End Sub