Software plugin for Outlook

This is simple enough to do with a bit of scripting?  Is that an option?

What would that involve?
I haven't done much scripting/programming since College?
I'd be willing to give it a go though.....

> What would that involve?
Something like the code below.  This code will fire each time Outlook sends anything.  If the item being sent is a message (as opposed to a meeting request, task request, read receipt, etc.), then the code prompts the user asking if they want to save the message.  If they click "yes", then a dialog-box appears so they can enter the path to save the item to.  To use this code, follow these instructions.

1.  Open Outlook.
2.  Click Tools->Macro->Visual Basic Editor.  You should now be looking at the code editor.
3.  If it's not alread expanded, expand Microsoft Office Outlook Objects.  Then click on ThisOutlookSession.
4.  Copy the code below and paste it into the code window.
5.  Edit the code as needed.  I included a comment line where things can/need to change
6.  Close the code window.
7.  Exit Outlook.
8.  Start Outlook.
9.  You should receive a dialog-box asking if you want to enable macros.  You must enable them for this code to work.  You'll have to do this each time you start Outlook.

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
    Dim strPath As String
    If Item.Class = olMail Then
        'Change the message on the next line as desired
        If MsgBox("Do you want to save a copy of this message to the file system?", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Save Message") = vbYes Then
            'Change the message, caption, and default path on the next line as desired
            strPath = InputBox("Enter the path to the folder where the message will be saved.", "Save Message", "C:\")
            Item.SaveAs strPath & "\" & RemoveIllegalCharacters(Item.Subject) & ".msg", olMSG
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Function RemoveIllegalCharacters(strItem As String) As String
    'This function strips illegal characters from the message subject so the subject can be used as the file name
    Dim strTemp As String
    strTemp = Replace(strItem, ":", "%58")
    strTemp = Replace(strTemp, "/", "%47")
    strTemp = Replace(strTemp, "\", "%92")
    RemoveIllegalCharacters = strTemp
End Function

BlueDevil,

Thanks a million - that worked a treat!

Now excuse me for being picky but if we could make one (small) improvement it would be absolutlely perfect (if we can make the improvement I'll increase value of question to 500)

1.) Instead of having to manually type in the filepath to save to; can we have an optional Browse button also?

BlueDevil,

Also what will happen if two emails of same subject are saved to the same location? I haven't tried to do this yet

Ok, I'll put together something together that browses for the folder to save to.  In answer to your question, right now the last message will received will overwrite any previous version.  If you want that changed, then how do you want to handle duplicates.

I suppose if they were to incement  it would be great eg.

EmailSubject.msg; (as it would currently save it)
EmailSubject(2).msg
EmailSubject(3).msg

etc.

Cheers

Increasing the points of the solution!

Thanks a million BlueDevil!

Note: For anyone else who wants to use this solution there is one (small) error in the code

You will need to add another End If between lines 7 & 8 in the definition of the Sub_Application

(as is presented in the first code)

Not to take from BlueDevil who is more than worth the 500 points!!

You're welcome, and thank you!