generating an email from a recurring appointment

[Guest]

I have what I thought was a simple goal, but the answer doesn't seem to be
trivial. I have recurring task in Outlook 2003 to send my admin my hours for
the week. Generally, it's the same message every week. What I'd like to do is
have an email auto-generated when the task due date fires. Basically I just
need a new email message created, addressed, subject line inserted and
templated text inserted.

I use a combination of iCal and Mail on Mac OS X and this is pretty trivial.
It has to be as easy with Outlook but I just can't seem to figure it out. Can
anyone point me to a resource that might have a solution?

Many thanks!

Chris

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's a task for Outlook VBA code. Use the Application.Reminder event,
which passes as an argument the item that fired the reminder.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip Sue -- I'll look at that event.

 

[JeremyH1982]

I want to do the same thing, only I want it to send once every other month, a
few days before we open our warehouse to the public for a public sale...

I just added the person to my contacts, and Clicked on the Flag to
follow-up, and I chose the date, and I put in "Send Email" and that was
that...

I haven't type the email or anything, I'm assuming it's going to populate
the address field of the email on the due date, and let me type in the
subject and body of the email... is that correct to my understanding?

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