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user3219064
user3219064

Reputation: 9

How to create a vbs to check for unread emails

I am have been looking for ways on how to create a visual basic script for outlook and most of the suggestions have been from this website. Unfortunately none of them meet my exact need.

Reason for the script:

There is a shared mailbox which a few of my colleagues have access to and are meant to check however at times this can get ignored. I would like to create a script which checks for unread emails in this shared mailbox and emails specific contacts if the folder contains more than 10 emails.

What I have tried so far: 

Option Explicit

 Private Sub Main()
  Dim olMAPI As Outlook.NameSpace
  Dim Folder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
  Const FOLDER_TO_OPEN = "Mailbox - John Doe"   'Modify as appropriate

  Set olMAPI = GetObject("", "Outlook.Application") _
                          .GetNamespa   ce("MAPI")
  Call PrintFolderNames(olMAPI.Folders(FOLDER_TO_OPEN), "->")
  Set olMAPI = Nothing
End Sub

 Sub PrintFolderNames(tempfolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder, a$)
  Dim i As Integer
  If tempfolder.Folders.Count Then
     Debug.Print a$ & " " & tempfolder.Name & "  ";
     Debug.Print tempfolder.UnReadItemCount
     For i = 1 To tempfolder.Folders.Count
       Call PrintFolderNames(tempfolder.Folders(i), a$ & "->")
     Next i
  Else
     Debug.Print a$ & " " & tempfolder.Name & "  ";
     Debug.Print tempfolder.UnReadItemCount
  End If
 End Sub

I have tried to create a script first which checks for unread emails in a specific folder but this usually fails with syntax/run time errors. I have tried:

But this came back with a compile error then a syntax error.

I have also tried:

Const olFolderInbox = 6

Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

Set objNamespace = objOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
objNamespace.Logon "Default Outlook Profile", , False, True    

Set objFolder = objNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

Set colItems = objFolder.Items
Wscript.Echo colItems.Count

objOutlook.Quit

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7552

Answers (1)

Manuel Allenspach
Manuel Allenspach

Reputation: 12745

You must have outlook installed to use this code:

Const olFolderInbox = 6
Const olMailItem = 0
dim objOutlook

call checkForUnreadMails


sub checkForUnreadMails()
    dim objFolder, objNamespace

    'get running outlook application or open outlook
    Set objOutlook = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
        If objOutlook Is Nothing Then
            Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
        End If

    Set objNamespace = objOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")  

    'get inbox folder
    Set objFolder = objNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

    'send mail if more than 10 mails are unread
    if objFolder.UnReadItemCount > 10 then
        sendMail "your@mail.address"
    end if

    'send mail if more folder contains more than 10 mails
    'if objFolder.Items.Count > 10 then
    '   sendMail "your@mail.address"
    'end if
end sub

sub sendMail(address)
    dim oItem
    Set oItem = objOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)

    With oItem
         .To = address
         .Subject = "Unread mails!"
         .Body = "You have too many unread mails!"
         .send
    End With
end sub

Upvotes: 1

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