Copying Emails to the Calendar

[Rommel]

In Outlook 2003 I want to automatically copy a sent Email to the Calendar as
an appointment, as a reminder.

Can I do this with VBA?

If it is possible, how do I turn the Email into a Calender appointment?

Rommel

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You don't. What you do is create a new AppointmentItem, probably using
Application.CreateItem() and then populate the appointment fields with data
you get from that email.

 

[Rommel]

Instead of copying fields, as you suggest, I just want to replicate the
effect of dragging a sent email onto the Calendar button in Outlook. The
content of the appointment is then a text copy of the email (including to,
and from fields etc).

Can I duplicate this by simply setting the "body text" of the appointment
item to the email item, for example?

Rommel

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You can add anything you want to the appointment Body, including any
information from the email such as Body or sender or recipients or whatever.
You'd still have to do it using code to copy the field information from the
email to the appointment though.