Outlook VBA and Custom Forms VBA BeforeItemMove event create rule to always move to

[KadamWiser]

When I manually move an email to a #folder I want a popup asking me if I want to create a rule called #folder to always move mails from its #sender to the #folder.

I need to listen for BeforeItemMove event (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vba/outlook-vba/articles/folder-beforeitemmove-event-outlook) on the Inbox folder. In the handler, I need to conditionalty show a message box (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vba/language-reference-vba/articles/msgbox-function) asking to create a rule. And then use the Outlook Rules API (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vba/outlook-vba/articles/rules-create-method-outlook) to create a rule.

I'm not good at all in VBA. I wrote:

unction BeforeItemMove(Item, MoveTo, Cancel)

Dim Msg, Style, Title, Help, Ctxt, Response, MyString
Msg = "Do you want to always move mails from this sender to this folder?" ' Define message.
Style = vbYesNo + vbCritical + vbDefaultButton2 ' Define buttons.
Title = "Create rule" ' Define title.
Help = "DEMO.HLP" ' Define Help file.
Ctxt = 1000 ' Define topic
' context.
' Display message.
Response = MsgBox(Msg, Style, Title, Help, Ctxt)
If Response = vbYes Then ' User chose Yes.
MyString = "Yes" ' Perform some action.
CreateRule (MoveTo)
Else ' User chose No.
MyString = "No" ' Perform some action.
End If
End Function

Sub CreateRule()
Dim colRules As Outlook.Rules
Dim oRule As Outlook.Rule
Dim colRuleActions As Outlook.RuleActions
Dim oMoveRuleAction As Outlook.MoveOrCopyRuleAction
Dim oFromCondition As Outlook.ToOrFromRuleCondition
Dim oExceptSubject As Outlook.TextRuleCondition
Dim oInbox As Outlook.Folder
Dim oMoveTarget As Outlook.Folder



'Specify target folder for rule move action
Set oInbox = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

'Assume that target folder already exists
Set oMoveTarget = oInbox.Folders(MoveTo)



'Get Rules from Session.DefaultStore object
Set colRules = Application.Session.DefaultStore.GetRules()



'Create the rule by adding a Receive Rule to Rules collection
Set oRule = colRules.Create(MoveTo, olRuleReceive)



'Specify the condition in a ToOrFromRuleCondition object
'Condition is if the message is sent by "DanWilson"

Set oFromCondition = oRule.Conditions.From

With oFromCondition

.Enabled = True

.Recipients.Add (Sender)

.Recipients.ResolveAll

End With



'Specify the action in a MoveOrCopyRuleAction object

'Action is to move the message to the target folder

Set oMoveRuleAction = oRule.Actions.MoveToFolder

With oMoveRuleAction

.Enabled = True

.Folder = oMoveTarget

End With






'Update the server and display progress dialog

colRules.Save
End Sub

[KadamWiser]

Worked on it



Private WithEvents objFolder As Outlook.Folder

Private Sub Application_Startup() Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set objNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objFolder = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
End Sub


Private Sub objFolder_BeforeItemMove(ByVal Item As Object, ByVal MoveTo As MAPIFolder, Cancel As Boolean)
BeforeItemMove Item, MoveTo, Cancel
End Sub


Function BeforeItemMove(Item As Outlook.MailItem, MoveTo As Folder, Cancel As Boolean)


Dim Msg, Style, Title, Help, Ctxt, Response, MyString
Msg = "Do you want to always move mails from this sender to this folder?" ' Define message.
Style = vbYesNo + vbCritical + vbDefaultButton2 ' Define buttons.
Title = "Create rule" ' Define title.
Help = "DEMO.HLP" ' Define Help file.
Ctxt = 1000 ' Define topic
' context.
' Display message.
Response = MsgBox(Msg, Style, Title, Help, Ctxt)
If Response = vbYes Then ' User chose Yes.
MyString = "Yes" ' Perform some action.
CreateRule Item, MoveTo
Else ' User chose No.
MyString = "No" ' Perform some action.
End If
End Function


Sub CreateRule(Item As Outlook.MailItem, MoveTo As Folder)
Dim colRules As Outlook.Rules
Dim oRule As Outlook.Rule
Dim colRuleActions As Outlook.RuleActions
Dim oMoveRuleAction As Outlook.MoveOrCopyRuleAction
Dim oFromCondition As Outlook.ToOrFromRuleCondition
Dim oExceptSubject As Outlook.TextRuleCondition
Dim oInbox As Outlook.Folder
Dim oMoveTarget As Outlook.Folder


'Specify target folder for rule move action
Set oInbox = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)


'Assume that target folder already exists
Set oMoveTarget = oInbox.Folders(MoveTo.Name)


'Get Rules from Session.DefaultStore object
Set colRules = Application.Session.DefaultStore.GetRules()


'Create the rule by adding a Receive Rule to Rules collection
Set oRule = colRules.Create(MoveTo, olRuleReceive)


oRule.Name = "Test123"
'Specify the condition in a ToOrFromRuleCondition object
'Condition is if the message is sent by "DanWilson"


Set oFromCondition = oRule.Conditions.From


With oFromCondition


.Enabled = True


.Recipients.Add (Item.Sender)


.Recipients.ResolveAll


End With




'Specify the action in a MoveOrCopyRuleAction object


'Action is to move the message to the target folder


Set oMoveRuleAction = oRule.Actions.MoveToFolder


With oMoveRuleAction


.Enabled = True


.Folder = oMoveTarget


End With


'Update the server and display progress dialog


colRules.Save


End Sub