Holding text data in a received email

[Rob F]

Hi

Moving on from my recent thread about stripping files from
emails (and the now insoluble problem of the RTF solutions
not being accepted by my IT security people!), I'm now
looking at holding text data elsewhere in the email than
the message body.

For instance, I've appended the subject line so
that "Subject: Blah" becomes "Subject: Blah - file(s)
removed on dd/mm/yy" when I run a macro, which works OK
but is not ideal. I've also tried setting flags with the
required string in, which works but of course flags can be
cleared.

Is there a better way of recording my "file removed"
string somewhere in the email? I've looked through all the
available Outlook fields but nothing seems to spring to
mind.

Rob F

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

MailItem.BillingInformation is a string field that isn't used very often and
could be used for that. An alternative is to add a UserProperty string
property to each item that you manipulate and store the information in that.