Outlook Rule triggered script not marking message as read or saving edits

Question

Hi All,

I have a vba macro that is triggered by a rule to sort and save attachments from certain emails.

The attachment save works very well 95% of the time, but occasionally it will not (I don't know why).

So, in order to tell if the script has run or not, I wanted the script to mark an email as read if the script runs, and leave it if it doesn't.

"MItem.UnRead = False"

The macro is also supposed to add a line of text to the top of the email saying where the attachments had been saved.

MItem.HTMLBody = "Email saved to xxx" & MItem.HTMLBody

MItem.Save

Both the mark as read and added text functionally works fine when the macro is run manually, but neither work when the macro is triggered by the rule.

Anyone know why?

Answer 1

hi it is liam speer

Answer 2

Dear KSD050,

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I understand about your requirement and I believe this is something like can be achieve by VB scripts

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