Auto-Save attachments in Outlook 2003 ???

[pcmangler]

Hi,

Having spent hours searching for an answer to this and finding lots of
replies quoting VBA scripts etc, I am only marginally wiser !

I can't believe that an app as complex as Outlook 2003 doesn't have a
built-in facility to automatically save attachments !!
This seems such a glaringly obvious omission, I am inclined to think it
has been done deliberately for some strange reason.

Please can someone help here - all I want to do is create a rule that
will check for a message from a certain sender and automatically save
any attachments to a specified folder. That's all. I don't want to
have to learn VBA, nor jump through a hundred hoops, nor for that
matter spend any more money *buying* a third party addon that should
have been included in Outlook in the first place !

I've seen all the code that's been used in replies to previous
questions of this type, but trying to work out how to turn that code
into a rule or a macro has wasted most of my evening so far, and I'm
more than a little tired now

I don't want to have to learn VBA, and I *shouldn't* have to - I just
want to save my attachments when they come in. If (as I have gathered)
it needs this 'vba code' then could some kind soul spoon-feed me
through getting from a page of code to a macro / rule / script that I
can use in Outlook ?

Many thanks to anyone who can help !

Cheers,

Kev.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I can't believe that an app as complex as Outlook 2003 doesn't have a
built-in facility to automatically save attachments !!
This seems such a glaringly obvious omission, I am inclined to think
it has been done deliberately for some strange reason.

Believe it.

Please can someone help here - all I want to do is create a rule that
will check for a message from a certain sender and automatically save
any attachments to a specified folder. That's all. I don't want to
have to learn VBA, nor jump through a hundred hoops, nor for that
matter spend any more money *buying* a third party addon that should
have been included in Outlook in the first place !

The reality is those are the choices you have. I assume you've read
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm . For less than $30 for
many of the add-ins, it's not a break-the-bank situation.

 

[Christian Goeller]

Hello (e-mail address removed), you wrote on 22 Aug 2005 15:45:56 -0700:

Having spent hours searching for an answer to this and finding lots of
replies quoting VBA scripts etc, I am only marginally wiser !

I can't believe that an app as complex as Outlook 2003 doesn't have a
built-in facility to automatically save attachments !!
This seems such a glaringly obvious omission, I am inclined to think it
has been done deliberately for some strange reason.

Please can someone help here - all I want to do is create a rule that
will check for a message from a certain sender and automatically save
any attachments to a specified folder. That's all. I don't want to
have to learn VBA, nor jump through a hundred hoops, nor for that
matter spend any more money *buying* a third party addon that should
have been included in Outlook in the first place !

I've seen all the code that's been used in replies to previous
questions of this type, but trying to work out how to turn that code
into a rule or a macro has wasted most of my evening so far, and I'm
more than a little tired now

I don't want to have to learn VBA, and I *shouldn't* have to - I just
want to save my attachments when they come in. If (as I have gathered)
it needs this 'vba code' then could some kind soul spoon-feed me
through getting from a page of code to a macro / rule / script that I
can use in Outlook ?

Many thanks to anyone who can help !

Well, you could use [1]. It's a little Add-In which saves all
attachments from an incoming mail in a folder you specified before. But
you will not have any notice in the mail, where the attachment has been
saved, not even the filename. It's available only in german but cost
free.

I personally prefer [2]. It is a very helpful tool which is worth every
cent it cost. You can try it 30 days - I would advise to do it and you
will never want to miss it!

[1]http://www.add-in-world.com/katalog/ol-autosave/
[2]http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/