Filtering Subject and creating Categories

[Shnookums]

Hi,

Yes i'm new to this forum and I must say it's great :) I have some past experience with scripting in the past using MaxScript (3D software in-house scripting language) but this VBA stuff is a bit extreme for me now.

I looked at different post in the forum and couldnt quite find the information I was looking for. So here I am posting on my own.

What I need to do is to filter the subject of my mails. The thing is I get message with subject generated by a bug database software that look like this :

[JIRA] Assigned: (QCKEL-1610) Flickering elements in 01_Casino_01
[JIRA] Assigned: (KEL-1245) Flickering elements in 01_Mexico_03
[JIRA] Closed: (QCKEL-1610) Flickering elements in 01_Casino_01

I would love to sort them using "Conversation" but since the subject line is changing it doesnt work. So what I tought is creating a script to filter the stuff in between the ( ) and create a Categorie with that string. This way I could sort my mails using Categorie and the mails that have the same "bug number" would be grouped together.

I hope i'm clear enough :P

Thx in advance!

-- Christian

[matthewspatrick]

Christian,

What version of Outlook do you use? Outlook 2000 writes the Master Category List to the Registry as plain text, but XP and 2003 use binary...

[Shnookums]

It would be Outlook 2003.

Thx!