The event you're looking for is the ItemSend event. Please look into the VBA
help for a sample.

Depending on your needs, you might search for 'netapp' in the item's subject
or body property. For that use the Instr function, which returns a value 0
if the string is found.

Then add a specific category to the item's Categories property. before that,
check if it already contains a value. If so, then add the new value with a
leading semicolon - else you would overwrite the existing category.

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Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Organize eMails:
http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?id=2006063&cmd=detail&lang=en&pub=6

Am Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:56:03 -0700 schrieb Jody:

Can you guys tell me how to implement this?

I have several categories and would like emails that are sent regarding
specific events:

Such as an email sent with the word "Netapp" to automatically be assinged
netapp upgrade category.

How can a programatically setup categories in this manner?

Please include step by step instructions as I am new to outlook
programming
and don't know exactly how to edit the code but, have done similar things
in
thep ast with previous verisons of outlook.

I appreciate the help.



"RobL" wrote:

Well Sue,

you're a genius! I really appreciate your help.

Cheers,
Rob
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Software Support Engineer
i2 Ltd.


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Yes. Unless you save the item, the changes are not permanent.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"RobL" wrote in message
...
Hi Sue,

I'm not doing a .Save anywhere in my code. Do you think that
including one
after my category assignment would encourage the explorer to re-group
by
category?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Rob

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Software Support Engineer
i2 Ltd.


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Maybe a dumb question, but are you also including an objMail.Save
statement?

"RobL" wrote in message
...
Hello again,

a small update to my problem:

When I assign a Category programmatically (through
objMail.Categories =
"MyCategory" as before), the explorer doesn't catch on to the fact
that the
category has changed until I right-click and do Categories...

The category I assigned programmatically is there in the list and
is ticked,
and it's only when I ok this dialog that the explorer finally
re-organises
itself and the email is grouped by the correct category.

Is there a way to programmatically force this to happen?


"RobL" wrote:

Hi Guys,

Outlook 2003, VBA Code:
I'm programmatically assigning categories to email messages (e.g.
objMail.Categories = "My Category"). All very well, but when I
have my
emails arranged by Category, the location of the email in the
Explorer does
not always match up its Category. Is there a way to refresh the
sort when a
category changes. This area of functionality seems a little
"flakey".

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Rob Levy
--
Software Support Engineer
i2 Ltd.