Dynamically setting the Sent Items folder

[Aaron Anderson]

What I'm trying to accomplish is adding an additional field to the new
mail form where a user will enter a project number. That field should
be used to programatically do one of the following:

- set which IMAP folder the sent message should be stored (eg Shared
Folders/Projects/12345A)
- post a copy of the message to an IMAP folder (eg Shared
Folders/Projects/12345A)

Creating the custom form was easy. What I'm not sure how to save the
outgoing message to an IMAP folder. Some google searching of the
newsgroups led me to this:

Try setting Item.SaveSentMessageFolder to the desired MAPIFolder
target. The
folder needs to be in your mailbox or PST file. (thanks to Sue Mosher
([email protected])).

I would like to confirm that this would work for IMAP folders.

An alternative is to set a custom X message header (eg X-Project:
12345A) and have my MTA file it in a folder. That is not my prefered
method however.

thanks,

Aaron Anderson

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You cannot use custom form code to save an outgoing message to an IMAP
folder. Your application would need to handle this with an Application-level
event handler to monitor the default Sent Items folder and copy the message
to the IMAP mailbox.

You may also be able handle it with a rule for outgoing messages.