How to clear category when forwarding a mail

[Ganesh]

I have set up a rule which categorizes mails based on certain criteria to a
color category. Now, the problem is that the category also gets forwarded to
the recipient whn i forward the mail. This is kinda not what is intented in
my case. Is there some way I could achive this?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You forward as an attachment or in-line?
The default in Outlook 2007 is to strip the categories when sending.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/41

 

[Ganesh]

Thanks Roady, it works great.

You forward as an attachment or in-line?
The default in Outlook 2007 is to strip the categories when sending.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/41

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!



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Thanks Roady, it works great.

 

[Ganesh]

Roady, I have another quick question here, is there any way I could set this
up only for a particular category? I dont wana send out the category info
when replying/forwarding when the mail is under a specific category...

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Then you'll have to create an outgoing rule to do that.
Condition: assigned to specific category
Action: clear message's categories

 

[Ganesh]

Thanks, but this clears all the categories on the mail. Any idea on how I
could clear off a specific category alone?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That's going to be harder. If this category is always combined with the same
other category, then you could use 2 rules; first to clear them all and then
add the other categories again.

Otherwise you'll have to look at custom actions and use VBA. Then you can
strip a specific category.

 

[Ganesh]

Oh... tats bad. I dont know what other categories it could be combined with.
Any idea on where I could find some material(samples) on writing custom
actions in VBA?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

A good start is;
http://www.outlookcode.com

There is also a forum there and you could also ask in the developers
newsgroup;
microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba