-Carl

I use my outlook 2007 for work, uni and personal email and sometimes forget to change the ‘from’ line of my emails. Could you please give advice on how to write a macro so it will remind me each time I want to send an email as to whether I want to put one in? I’ve tried editing existing code like yours above, but can’t get it to work. (I’m not that great at programming) Any help would be gratefully received, thanks so much.

Harry

First of all, if there are individual entries in your auto-complete addresses that you don’t want, you can remove them. Start typing in the “To” field until the unwanted name shows up. Then, highlight it (without clicking) and press the delete key.

You can also check domains for each outgoing message by modifying the macro. For example, to display the domains you could add code like:

If Item.Class = olMail Then
MsgBox Item.To & vbCrLf & Item.CC
End If

You can use the InStr command to check those fields for certain strings and trigger the popup based on that.

Happy coding!

-Carl

Great Macro thanks.

Can you propose a way to help with the following
Due to the Outlook Auto Complete feature, I sometimes send an email to the wrong contact
And It can be very problematic at times…

I would like to write a macro that will do:
pop up a warning with a list of domains that the mail is sent to

or check that the mail is sent to an external domain (not my company domain name)

Thanks,
Amit

-Carl

Thanks for a great code. This was working on my Outlook for a few days, and then all the sudden stopped working. Nothing pops up at all. I’ve brought my security level down to Low, tried deleting and re-programming the macro, and nothing seems to work. Any words of wisdom? I have Outlook 2003.

Thanks!

-Carl

I’ve tried the self-signing above; but no improvement there.

Any ideas?

-Carl

Awesome macro, thanks! One issue, it works fine during my session. But when I close Outlook and reopen it, the macro doesn’t work until I actually go into VB and look at it, then it starts working again.

Do you have any idea why this would be?

Thanks in advance.

Regarding the +vbMsgBoxSetForeground setting, I just updated it for the three checks in the macro. This is based on my comment above from 25 Nov 08, but now it is in the base code. Thanks for the suggestion!

-Carl

1.Please add ‘ + vbMsgBoxSetForeground’ in your code itself, so that we’ll get the prompt in the foregroud.
2.Please add the steps for signing a macro with selfsign utility.This will avoid the macro security issue.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155754(office.10).aspx

You were right! The problem was related to macro security settings.

I have disabled the security selecting the option “No security check for all macros” and it worked.

Then, I have certificate the macro and selected the option “Warnings for signed macros; all unsigned macros disable”. At first Outlook run and first macro warning I choose to trust all macros signed by me. And that’s it, macro is working and no more security warnings.

Thank you for your help.
Regards,
José

No problem, people have called me much worse things! A few more things you can try:

[1] It might be related to your macro security setting. Try moving down to medium to see if it fixes the issue. I think that is in “Tools > Trust Center” for OL2007. You have to *completely* shut down Outlook and restart it after changing the security level for it to stay.

If you don’t want to leave the setting at medium, there are instructions here, here, and elsewhere online that show you how to certify your macro so it will run even when the security level is high.

[2] Try running some very basic macros and launching them manually (not automatically). Here is an example:
Sub HelloWorld()
MsgBox “Hola mundo”
End Sub

[3] If that works manually, now try getting it to trigger from the message send event. Note that you can only have one macro with this title in your “ThisOutlookSession” module, so you will have to remove the other one before testing this one:
Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
MsgBox “Hola mundo”
End Sub

[4] It shouldn’t matter, but try deleting the “Private” qualifier on the first line of the macro.

Good luck, please post a note here if you figure it out.

-Carl

No I don’t see any error messages. All messages pass without warnings. I have tried to change the code using the “vbMsgBoxSetForeground” or “vbSystemModal” options but the behaviour is the same.

And no, I don’t have any other macros.

I even have try this on other computer with Outlook 2007 and the behaviour is exactly the same. All messages pass without warnings after rebooting.

Thank for your help.

When you say the macro stopped working, what do you mean exactly? Do you see error messages, or does it just let all messages pass without warning? Do you have other macros that are working, or do all of your macros stop working?

-Carl

I have tried your macro with Outlook 2007 SP2 and it only worked once. After rebooting the PC, the macro stopped working.

I can make the macro work again by deleting the VbaProject.OTM at %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook and make again the macro, but after rebooting it won’t work any more .

It is only working on the current session. If I restart the PC the macro does not work.

Any idea what’s happening?

Thank you.

-Carl

-Carl

strBody = LCase(Item.Subject) & LCase(Item.Body)

Thanks!
-Carl

-Carl

vbYesNo + vbExclamation, “Attachment Missing?”)

Would be changed to

vbYesNo + vbExclamation + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Attachment Missing?”)

Please post a comment back here and let me know if it helped. Good luck!

-Carl

Outlook Etiquette Check VBA Code

The macro above does not recall messages or use the Outlook recall message feature. It stops messages before they are sent in case you want to correct any of the missing items. The time stamp will still be whatever time you finally send the message.

Does that answer your question?

-Carl