Script help - retain forwarded email body & location of script

[Dawn]

Hi, with the help of searching this forum (thanks, this place is amazing!) I
figured out a script that would forward a specified email when a rule finds
emails that meet certain criteria. It works really well, but I still have
two questions.

1) I am not sure I've saved the script in an appropriate location. I
really like this script and imagine I will be able to use variants of it for
a number of situations, so I want to be sure I'm saving it appropriately to
do so. The location I picked was based on a post, but it may have just been
telling a person where to save a script to test it temporarily?

In the Visual Basic editor, I have the Projects explorer window open, which
gave me a folder called Microsoft Office Outlook Objects. In this folder is
something called ThisOutlookSession. If I click this, a VB window is opened,
and I have my code in there. I am hoping if I put in another similar sub
into the same window, I will then be able to pick it to be used in another
rule.

2) the script works great, except that it would be even better if it
retained the body of the email that fired the rule. This code produces an
email that retains just the subject line, but the body of the email is blank
except for my new text. Code is below. Thanks in advance for any help!

Sub RunAScriptRuleRoutine(MyMail As MailItem)
Dim strID As String
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim msg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim fwd As Outlook.MailItem

strID = MyMail.EntryID
Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set msg = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID)
Set fwd = msg.Forward
With fwd
.To = "(e-mail address removed)"
.Subject = fwd.Subject & " -- MY TEXT HERE"
.HTMLBody = "Here is my email message."
.Send
End With

Set msg = Nothing
Set olNS = Nothing
End Sub

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

1) That's a fine place. You can also add a new module to hold just your rule
scripts if you prefer. You can copy and paste the one you have to create the
next one, changing the name of the procedure, of course.

2) This statement replaces the existing body with the text on the right side
of the equals sign:

.HTMLBody = "Here is my email message."

Take it out, and the forward message will be unchanged.

 

[Dawn]

Thanks Sue! Can you think of a way to both of a way to retain the original
body of the email, along with my new text that I'm trying to put in? I can
always just go find the original email by using the subject line, but it
would be great if I could save that step. Similar to how the subject line is
retained, along with my additional text. Would something like this work?

..HTMLBody = "Here is my email message." & fwd.Body

Cheers,
Dawn

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Sorry, it wasn't clear to me from your earlier posts that you needed to add
information to the forwarded message. If you don't care about formatting,
you can use code like what you propose. If you want to retain the full
formatting of the item, you need to work with fwd.HTMLBody not fwd.Body, but
you can't just use simple concatenation. You would need to insert the new
text inside the HTMLBody content, with proper HTML tagging (as in a web
page); that just takes some text parsing.

You may have other options as well, depending on your Outlook version and
the email editor.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Dawn]

Thanks! I don't know how to do HTML tagging, can you point me in right
direction? (and sorry if I'm asking for the sun moon and stars, I really
don't know if what I'm asking is complicated or not!) The end result I'm
looking for is an email, that would be as if I had hit the "forward" button
in outlook, then typed my message ("my text here") and hit send. I'm wanting
my additional text to appear as the first thing in the email string.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Sorry, but I'm not equipped to do an HTML tutorial; there are plenty of
those on the web. You'll get a good start if you just look at the source of
any HTML-format message.

In the meantime, if you don't care about formatting, you can just use this:

.Body = "Here is my email message." & vbCrLf & fwd.Body

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54