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Old August 13th 08, 01:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba
brbillin
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Default Outlook mailbox organization by Reply string elimination

All messages would be in the inbox. As a new message arrives in the inbox I
would like to look through the mailbox and delete anything with the same
reply string. This could probably key off the subject (seeking other
messages with same subject and older contents).

The idea is to delete messages with the same content or reply string.
Instead of keeping 3 messages which are all sequentail replies it would only
keep the message with most complete reply thread thus clearing older 2
messages from the mailbox (since the latest relpy contains them all) and
reducing mail organization time.

The more I think about it the more complicated it seems. Further
development might include copying all attachements from previous messages
within the reply string to the current message thus not loosing any content
in previous replies and keeping a complete record of the conversation.

"Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Do you mean that you want to look for other messages that have the exact
same body content as the message you are replying to?

Where would these older messages be - in the same folder or possibly
anywhere?

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"brbillin" wrote in message
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Never used VB in Outlook. Want to create a macro that will automatically
delete older messages with same content as the reply message. I'm sure
this
isn't a new idea, but can't seem to find anything readily available.


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