VBA Search in Outlook - vba

Question

I have this code to search in my folder.
I do have a e-mail with the "sketch" subject, but VBA is not finding it (it goes to the ELSE clause)
Can anybody tell what is wrong ?
Set olApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
Set olNs = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFldr = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set olItms = olFldr.Items
Set Mail = olItms.Find("[Subject] = ""*sketch*""") 'Tracking
If Not (Mail Is Nothing) Then
'use mail item here
Else
NoResults.Show
End If

Answer 1

Here is a way to do the search using Items Restrict.
This runs fast and you do not need to loop through the items to find the items that match the search criteria.
Sub Search_Inbox()
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
Dim objNamespace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim objFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim filteredItems As Outlook.Items
Dim itm As Object
Dim Found As Boolean
Dim strFilter As String
Set objNamespace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objFolder = objNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
strFilter = "#SQL=" & Chr(34) & "urn:schemas:httpmail:subject" & Chr(34) & " like '%sketch%'"
Set filteredItems = objFolder.Items.Restrict(strFilter)
If filteredItems.Count = 0 Then
Debug.Print "No emails found"
Found = False
Else
Found = True
' this loop is optional, it displays the list of emails by subject.
For Each itm In filteredItems
Debug.Print itm.Subject
Next
End If
'If the subject isn't found:
If Not Found Then
'NoResults.Show
Else
Debug.Print "Found " & filteredItems.Count & " items."
End If
'myOlApp.Quit
Set myOlApp = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 2

The reason your .Find isn't working is because Items.Find doesn't support the use of wildcards. Items.Find also doesn't support searching partial strings. So to actually find the email, you'd need to remove the wildcards and include the entire string in your search criteria.
So here are your options:
If you know the full subject line you're looking for, modify your code like so:
Set Mail = olItms.Find("[Subject] = ""This Sketch Email""")
If you don't (or won't) know the full subject, you can loop through your inbox folder and search for a partial subject line like so:
Untested
Sub Search_Inbox()
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
Dim myNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim myInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim myitems As Outlook.Items
Dim myitem As Object
Dim Found As Boolean
Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myInbox = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set myitems = myInbox.Items
Found = False
For Each myitem In myitems
If myitem.Class = olMail Then
If InStr(1, myitem.Subject, "sketch") > 0 Then
Debug.Print "Found"
Found = True
End If
End If
Next myitem
'If the subject isn't found:
If Not Found Then
NoResults.Show
End If
myOlApp.Quit
Set myOlApp = Nothing
End Sub
Hope that helps!