Auto-Save attachments in Outlook 2003 ???

[pcmangler]

Hi,

Having spent hours searching for an answer to this and finding lots of
replies quoting VBA scripts etc, I am only marginally wiser !

I can't believe that an app as complex as Outlook 2003 doesn't have a
built-in facility to automatically save attachments !!
This seems such a glaringly obvious omission, I am inclined to think it
has been done deliberately for some strange reason.

Please can someone help here - all I want to do is create a rule that
will check for a message from a certain sender and automatically save
any attachments to a specified folder. That's all. I don't want to
have to learn VBA, nor jump through a hundred hoops, nor for that
matter spend any more money *buying* a third party addon that should
have been included in Outlook in the first place !

I've seen all the code that's been used in replies to previous
questions of this type, but trying to work out how to turn that code
into a rule or a macro has wasted most of my evening so far, and I'm
more than a little tired now

I don't want to have to learn VBA, and I *shouldn't* have to - I just
want to save my attachments when they come in. If (as I have gathered)
it needs this 'vba code' then could some kind soul spoon-feed me
through getting from a page of code to a macro / rule / script that I
can use in Outlook ?

Many thanks to anyone who can help !

Cheers,

Kev.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I can't believe that an app as complex as Outlook 2003 doesn't have a
built-in facility to automatically save attachments !!
This seems such a glaringly obvious omission, I am inclined to think
it has been done deliberately for some strange reason.

Believe it.

Please can someone help here - all I want to do is create a rule that
will check for a message from a certain sender and automatically save
any attachments to a specified folder. That's all. I don't want to
have to learn VBA, nor jump through a hundred hoops, nor for that
matter spend any more money *buying* a third party addon that should
have been included in Outlook in the first place !

The reality is those are the choices you have. I assume you've read
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm . For less than $30 for
many of the add-ins, it's not a break-the-bank situation.