Auto Download Attachments and Rename using Sender's Name - vba

I have the following code that auto save the attachments from any incoming mail and renames the attachment with the date and time so as not to overwrite.
Public Sub AutoSaveAttachment(itm As Outlook.MailItem)
Dim objAtt As Outlook.Attachment
Dim saveFolder As String
Dim dateFormat
saveFolder = "C:\temp"
dateFormat = Format(Now, "mm.dd.yyyy (Hh.Nn)")
For Each objAtt In itm.Attachments
If InStr(objAtt.DisplayName, ".pdf") Then
objAtt.SaveAsFile saveFolder & "\" & "Attch " & dateFormat & "." & "pdf"
End If
Set objAtt = Nothing
Next
End Sub
I want to add the sender's name before the date/time. I tried this code below which doesn't work. Run-time error.
Sub AttachmentDownloader(itm As Outlook.MailItem)
Dim objAtt As Outlook.Attachment
Dim saveFolder As String
Dim senderName As String
Dim dateFormat
dateFormat = Format(Now, "mmddyyyy_(Hh.Nn)")
senderName = objAtt.senderName & "_"
saveFolder = "C:\temp"
For Each objAtt In itm.Attachments
If InStr(objAtt.DisplayName, ".pdf") _
Or InStr(objAtt.DisplayName, ".xlsx") _
Or InStr(objAtt.DisplayName, ".xlsm") _
Or InStr(objAtt.DisplayName, ".doc") _
Or InStr(objAtt.DisplayName, ".docx") Then
objAtt.SaveAsFile saveFolder & "\" & senderName & dateFormat & objAtt.DisplayName
End If
Set objAtt = Nothing
Next
End Sub
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Runtime error "424: Object Required" because you haven't assigned to the objAtt variable yet. You've got an instantiated, but unassigned object variable.
Which is presumably an Attachment object, but that will raise a "Method or data member not found" error, because the attachment object doesn't have a senderName property, that belongs to the MailItem class.
So, try:
senderName = itm.senderName & "_"

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Something like the following would work:
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If Dir(stFileName) = "" Then
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Regards,
Max