Outlook Rules

[Ronald]

Hi,

My organization is attempting to make the lives easier for our users (who
are Doctors). Many of whom are spready all over the place as they are
specialists, etc.

Most of the users do not access thier work outlook on a daily basis, so we
are wanting to create a rule for their outlook to redirect (when sent from a
particular email address in our organization) to their email of choice while
they are in the field.

I was hoping to automate this process to some extent (ie. they click, enter
their alternate email and voila, a new redirect rule is created.) Is this
possible in MS Outlook 2003?

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Not really, not for Outlook 2003. For Outlook 2007 the Rules collection and
objects are exposed to code but not in earlier versions. You'd need to
create the rule manually on each computer.

There is an old rule.dll method of doing what you want, but it's complex and
very hard to use. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251125 for information
about using rule.dll.

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

For what it is worth, Redemption wraps the rules through
RDOExchangeMailboxStore.Rules collection
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/rdo/rdostore.htm#RDOExchangeMailboxStore
It has the same limitations as the rule.dll (which is awkward to use and
required CDO 1.21 to be installed) - you can only manipulate Exchange rules,
and they will nto show up in the Tools | Rules dialog box in Outlook.

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Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
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OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
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