Saving msg to local folder using illegal characters in file name - vba

Question

I have the following code to save emails from Outlook to a folder on the desktop.
I would like to name the files with the email subjects exactly the way they are in Outlook. I do not want to strip any characters.
I have played around with the macro but I can't fix it. Also would like to remove the time stamp date etc.
Option Explicit
Dim StrSavePath As String
Sub SaveAllEmails_ProcessAllSubFolders()
Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Dim n As Long
Dim StrSubject As String
Dim StrName As String
Dim StrFile As String
Dim StrReceived As String
Dim StrFolder As String
Dim StrSaveFolder As String
Dim StrFolderPath As String
Dim iNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim mItem As MailItem
Dim FSO As Object
Dim ChosenFolder As Object
Dim Folders As New Collection
Dim EntryID As New Collection
Dim StoreID As New Collection
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set myOlApp = Outlook.Application
Set iNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set ChosenFolder = iNameSpace.PickFolder
If ChosenFolder Is Nothing Then
'GoTo ExitSub:
End If
BrowseForFolder StrSavePath
Call GetFolder(Folders, EntryID, StoreID, ChosenFolder)
For i = 1 To Folders.Count
StrFolder = StripIllegalChar(Folders(i))
n = InStr(3, StrFolder, "\") + 1
StrFolder = Mid(StrFolder, n, 256)
StrFolderPath = StrSavePath & "\" & StrFolder & "\"
StrSaveFolder = Left(StrFolderPath, Len(StrFolderPath) - 1) & "\"
If Not FSO.FolderExists(StrFolderPath) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (StrFolderPath)
End If
Set SubFolder = myOlApp.Session.GetFolderFromID(EntryID(i), StoreID(i))
On Error Resume Next
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set mItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
StrReceived = Format(mItem.ReceivedTime, "YYYYMMDD-hhmm")
StrSubject = mItem.Subject
StrName = StripIllegalChar(StrSubject)
StrFile = StrSaveFolder & StrReceived & "_" & StrName & ".msg"
StrFile = Left(StrFile, 256)
mItem.SaveAs StrFile, 3
Next j
On Error GoTo 0
Next i
ExitSub:
End Sub
Function StripIllegalChar(StrInput)
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
RegX.Pattern = "[\" & Chr(34) & "\!\#\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\=\+\|\[\]\{\}\`\'\;\:\<\>\?\/\,]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True
StripIllegalChar = RegX.Replace(StrInput, "")
ExitFunction:
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
Sub GetFolder(Folders As Collection, EntryID As Collection, _
StoreID As Collection, Fld As MAPIFolder)
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Folders.Add Fld.FolderPath
EntryID.Add Fld.EntryID
StoreID.Add Fld.StoreID
For Each SubFolder In Fld.Folders
GetFolder Folders, EntryID, StoreID, SubFolder
Next SubFolder
ExitSub:
Set SubFolder = Nothing
End Sub
Function BrowseForFolder(StrSavePath As String, _
Optional OpenAt As String) As String
Dim objShell As Object
Dim objFolder ' As Folder
Dim enviro
enviro = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE"))
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.BrowseForFolder(0, "Please choose a folder", _
0, enviro & "C:\Temp\Folders")
StrSavePath = objFolder.self.Path
On Error Resume Next
On Error GoTo 0
ExitFunction:
Set objShell = Nothing
End Function

Answer 1

an alternative approach if you absolutely want to retain the original email unaltered is to create a new email message to yourself with the original email saved as an attachment. Save the new email with a corrected subject to avoid windows naming errors, it will retain a link to the unaltered original.
It's a few extra steps but you should be able to automate those if you insist on retaining the original email unaltered.

Answer 2

Its bad idea like Tim said, but if that is what you want to do then modify your j loop to something like this...
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set mItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
StrSubject = mItem.Subject
StrSubject = StrSaveFolder & StrSubject & ".msg"
mItem.SaveAs StrSubject, 3
Next j
Good Luck...