Assign a Unique Number to Incoming Outlook Emails

[Guest]

Is it possible to have Outlook auto-assign a unique number to each email
(perhaps putting it at the beginning of the Subject line like "1000 - "?

Thanks,
Ray
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ivan T. Williams]

What version are you talking about? Perhaps a rule could do this, no?

 

[Guest]

Ray,

You could easily append/prepend to the subject of an email during a "run a
script" rule:
Sub AddUniqueIDToSubject(Item As MailItem)
Item.Subject = Item.Subject & "{" & CDbl(Now()) & "}"
Item.Save
End Sub

Add the above macro, then AddUniqueIDToSubject will be available in the "run
a script" list of scripts.

The above method of generating a unique value is reasonably effective.
Better methods are available; I'll leave that as a exercise.

-- Peter