Code Samples

The following code works in Outlook 2000 and up. It saves the attachments from selected messages but does not delete the attachments from the message(s). Copy and paste the code from this page into your ThisOutlookSession project. To do this, click in the text box, Select All using Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to copy. In Outlook,...

The following is the Save Attachment code sample from Teach Yourself Outlook in 24 Hours. Frank modified the code to break it into a single call for each mail item so you can use it with a rule to filter incoming mail. Frank's code modification (page 2) Augusto modified Frank's code "in order to avoid...

Sometimes we get some interesting questions and the solution, while not useful to everyone, is worth mentioning. This is one of those questions. I must use the BCC most of the time because of confidentiality reasons. I have made mistakes a couple of times when I entered the email addresses of more than one...

Outlook's behavior with the reply format is to reply in the format of the original message. If someone sends you plain text message, the reply will always be plain text, because Outlook assumes the sender prefers mail in that format or can only accept mail in that format. You can change this using...