How to move mail to a folder based on attachment filename? - vba

Question

I need a rule (or most probably a VBA macro) to sort my mails. In case I have per say "REPORT" in the filename of the attachment of a newly received mail than I would like to move that mail to a different folder, let say "REPORTS" folder.
How can I achieve this?
I already to set a rule on the mail header but that did not seem to solve the matter.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Used code from http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=62 and http://blog.saieva.com/2010/03/27/move-messages-to-folders-with-outlook-vba/
'code goes in "ThisOutlookSession" module
Private Sub Application_NewMailEx(ByVal EntryIDCollection As String)
Dim arr() As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim ns As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim itm As MailItem
Dim m As Outlook.MailItem
Dim att As Outlook.Attachment
On Error Resume Next
Set ns = Application.Session
arr = Split(EntryIDCollection, ",")
For i = 0 To UBound(arr)
Set itm = ns.GetItemFromID(arr(i))
If itm.Class = olMail Then
Set m = itm
If m.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
For Each att In m.Attachments
If UCase(att.FileName) Like "*REPORT*" Then
MoveToFolder m, "MoveTest"
Exit For
End If
Next att
End If
End If
Next
Set ns = Nothing
Set itm = Nothing
Set m = Nothing
End Sub
Sub MoveToFolder(mItem As MailItem, folderName)
'###you need to edit this for your account name###
Const mailboxNameString As String = "Mailbox - firstname lastname"
Dim olApp As New Outlook.Application
Dim olNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olDestFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Set olNameSpace = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olDestFolder = olNameSpace.Folders(mailboxNameString).Folders(folderName)
Debug.Print "[" & Date & " " & Time & "] " & _
": folder = " & folderName & _
"; subject = " & mItem.Subject & "..."
mItem.Move olDestFolder
End Sub