I have a folder in outlook 2003 whenever a new mail is dropped in this folder
it should send my customised reply to the person and after that the mail
should be marked as read. a mail shoudl not be replied moe than once.

Use the MAPIFolder.Items.Add event to monitor the desired folder. The item added to it is passed as an argument. Help has code examples, and there is another at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/quarexe.htm.

Note that your scenario has nothing to do with custom Outlook forms. The newsgroup for general Outlook programming issues is "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba or, via web interface, at http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm....program_v ba


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I have a folder in outlook 2003 whenever a new mail is dropped in this folder
it should send my customised reply to the person and after that the mail
should be marked as read. a mail shoudl not be replied moe than once.