Rules and Custom Actions

I would like to set up a rule in the Rules Wizard that
automatically creates and saves to a text file on my hard
drive the subject and body text of specific emails as
they are received. What is the best way to accomplish
this? It looked to me that Custom Actions in the rules
wizard might be the way to go, but I can't find any
documentation on what a Custom Action is or how to create
on.

Custom Actions are for advanced programmers; they require C++ or Dephi and knowledge of Extended MAPI. You don't need a custom action for this, though, just normal VBA programming. You can drive it from the ItemAdd event, monitoring the Inbox -- see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/quarexe.htm for a simple example.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"David Hirschfeld" <dhirschfeld@cox.net> wrote in message news:075f01c380d4$f7f422e0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I would like to set up a rule in the Rules Wizard that
> automatically creates and saves to a text file on my hard
> drive the subject and body text of specific emails as
> they are received. What is the best way to accomplish
> this? It looked to me that Custom Actions in the rules
> wizard might be the way to go, but I can't find any
> documentation on what a Custom Action is or how to create
> on.