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Call A VB Script In A Rule In Outlook

Prerequisite

1. Open registry editor (using ‘regedit’ in run).
2. Go to the following path in registry editor - Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Security
3. Change the value of ‘EnableUnsafeClientMailRules’ from 0 to 1.

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4. Close the registry editor.

Create A VBA Script

1. Go to the ‘Developer’ tab in outlook.
2. Click on ‘Visual Basic’ button.

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3. An editor will open as shown in screen shot below

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Sub MyMethod(Item As Outlook.MailItem)
	MsgBox "Hi"
End Sub

Create Rule

1. Go to the ‘Home’ tab.
2. Click on ‘Rules’ – ‘Create Rules…’

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3. A pop-up window will appear as shown in figure below

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4. Here, you can select the any condition. For this article, I am selecting a condition – when Subject contains ‘TestTest’.
5. Click on ‘Advanced Options…’. Following window will come

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6. Click on ‘Next’.
7. In the next screen, select the option ‘run a script’

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8. In the second window, click on the ‘a script’ link as shown by red border in above image.
9. A window will appear to select the script

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10. Click ‘Ok’ to close this window and click on ‘Finish’ in the parent window.

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