Automatically save an attachment in Outlook 2000

[JazzSP8]

Hi All

I was just wondering if anyone knew how I could automatically save an attachement from an Email to a specified location on a network drive?

Or failing that, help with an alternative soloution to this problem;

I've a report that I can only get my having a reporting suite Email it out in CSV format every hour, I then need to get that CSV file imported into Excel so I can take the data from it and incorporate it into a report.

(I can get Excel to retrieve the data file when needed so I thought it would be a case of using Outlook rules to automatically save the attachment to an Email, but, alas it seem's that this isn't an option, not an obvious one anyways...)

As always, any help or advice you guys can give would be greatly appreciated

 

[JP2112]

You'll need to adapt this code, but it should work. This code should be placed in the ThisOutlookSession module.

' register event handler
Private WithEvents MyItems As Outlook.Items

Private Sub Application_Startup()
  Dim olapp As Outlook.Application
  Dim olns As Outlook.NameSpace

  Set olapp = Outlook.Application
  Set olns = olapp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
  Set myitems = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items
End Sub

Private Sub myitems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)

Dim msg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim attachs As Outlook.Attachments

If TypeName(Item) = "MailItem" Then
  Set msg = Item

  ' figure out if it's the message with your attachment

  If msg.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
    Set attachs = msg.Attachs
    ' assumes message has only one attachment
    attachs.Item(1).SaveAsFile path ' wherever you want to save the file
  End If

ExitProc:
Set msg = Nothing
Set attachs = Nothing
End Sub

HTH,
JP

Hi All

I was just wondering if anyone knew how I could automatically save an attachement from an Email to a specified location on a network drive?

Or failing that, help with an alternative soloution to this problem;

I've a report that I can only get my having a reporting suite Email it out in CSV format every hour, I then need to get that CSV file imported into Excel so I can take the data from it and incorporate it into a report.

(I can get Excel to retrieve the data file when needed so I thought it would be a case of using Outlook rules to automatically save the attachment to an Email, but, alas it seem's that this isn't an option, not an obvious one anyways...)

As always, any help or advice you guys can give would be greatly appreciated

 

[JazzSP8]

Thanks JP - Shall have a look at that and let you know how I get on...

Muchly Appreciated