How to create a Custom Action?

[Alain Dekker]

Hi,

If you create a rule using the Rules wizard, there's an option in the list
"What do you want to do with the message?" that says, "Perform a custom
action". Th elist of actions to perform is blank, however. How do I create a
custom action, and what sort of actions can I perform?

Ideally I'd like to clear the "New message" flag on the message to stop the
"New Mail" icon appearing in the tray, or to mark the message as read, say.
However, I'm interested in how far this goes - can you write VBA script to
do stuff, for example?

Many thanks,
Alain

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Custom actions are .dlls created with Extended MAPI and C++ or Delphi. Not for the fainthearted.

Even clearing the envelope icon by itself isn't easy -- see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/clearenvicon.htm
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers