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    WSStephMungara
    AskWoody Lounger
    July 22, 2008 at 1:07 pm #452630

    I want to create a rule in Outlook 2003 that will forward email from a certain address with certain words in the subject or body between 6pm – 8:00am Monday through Friday (and all day on Saturday and Sundays) to an another email address. I know outlook’s built in rules can’t do this, but I read I could do this with VB. I need help with the code.

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    • WSjscher2000
      AskWoody Lounger
      July 22, 2008 at 6:23 pm #1118096

      This article supplies some background: Description of programming with Outlook rules (MSKB 324568). You can ignore everything after the heading “Outlook COM Add-in Rules.”

      With respect to the day of week and time, it might be a bit easier to check the current day of week and time on the PC rather than checking the message’s sent/received time. Here’s a function you could use:

      Function isAfterHours() As Boolean
      ' Set these to the appropriate hour (24 hours clock)
      Const dblStartOfDay As Double = 8
      Const dblEndOfDay As Double = 18
      ' Check current day and time and return appropriate value
      If Weekday(Now, vbMonday) > 5 Then
      ' It's the weekend
      isAfterHours = True
      Else
      If DateDiff("s", DateAdd("s", dblStartOfDay * 3600, Date), Now) 0 Then
      ' It's late in the evening
      isAfterHours = True
      Else
      isAfterHours = False
      End If
      End If
      End Function

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