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 on the Inbox folder. In the handler, I need to conditionalty show a message box asking to create a rule. And then use the Outlook Rules API 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