I’ve stared at this until I’m ‘Microsoft Blue’ in the face. I must be missing something.
What I want is for my ‘Sent Items’ to go somewhere other than my ‘Sent Items Folder’. The reason is that our over-ambitious administrators want to limit my mailbox size unreasonably. I can have the sent messages copied elsewhere without trouble, using a rule, and I can tell Outlook not to save a copy in ‘Sent Items’ from the options, but I can’t find a way to mark the copied messages read, as they normally do in the ‘Sent Items’.
A little searching has led me to the fact that it seems you can only mark inward messages read with rules.
Have I done this the wrong way? Is there a trick?
I could solve this if I could easily tell the rule to mark all messages in my custom ‘sent’ folder as read, or indeed just the one I just put there. Any ideas? I’m also happy to use some VBA if anyone knows where I should start.
As always, all suggestions gratefully received. No such thing as a stupid idea.
Cheers Jim
