I've spent a good hour and a half playing around with all sorts of combinations, but nothing seems to be working out for me..

HEre's what I'm trying to do.. Am trying to automatically (by setting a rule or other way) save attachments sent to me through a perticular account (and with a perticular username) to a designated folder

While I'm asking, before I started fiddeling around with my outlook, I also wanted to automatically save only those files that were under 350 kb. And, if possible automatically scan the files for viruses..

I guess that's asking for a bit.

Also, if anyone knows any other Mail S/W that can handle rules like this, I'd really like to hear about it.

Thanks....

This might not fully answer your problem but I just don't like to use Microsoft Outlook. I use Thunderbird instead and ofcourse, Thunderbird and Firefox is the best combination for web surfing

Yea for a second I thought he meant "MS OUtlook RULES~!!!!!' like...this was a thread talking about how awesome it was....it made me cry inside... but luckily it's just someone who hasn't learned better yet.

Good alternative programs are:
• Eudora
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Apple Mail (integrated in Mac OS X)
but there are a lot, lot more. I think Mail lacks the ability to set a file size that should be downloaded as Max (Eudora has the feature. Thunderbird might know, maybe with an extension.).
I think the attachment location thing can be down with all programs. I remember setting it up in Eudora, but Mail is enabled to do so too I think.

For the virus scans you need a virus protection system, either on your computer or on your Mail server. Gmail for example offers a virus protection. The user finaldesign round here always has some invitation links in his signature. There are plenty of anti-virus programs, so I can't recommend you "the" program to take.
I think you would be happy with Eudora (I know that it fits your needs), maybe Thunderbird too (not so sure about the features). Eudora costs money though, if you want to get rid of the ad.

I actually hace used Thunderbird, and I started off on it.. I actually still use it.. but I can't configure it to save attachments from a specific account automatically either.. Then I tried Outlook.. and nope.. couldn't get that to work out the way I want it to either..

I know for sure that Eudora does all the stuff you want. I'm not so sure about Thunderbird (but it is possible to download/write extensions, so practically everything is possible).

This might work for most of it, but you need to enter this in as a VB project and then call the script name from the Rules section.

Sub SaveToFolder(MyMail As MailItem)
Dim strID As String
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim objAtt As Outlook.Attachment
Dim c As Integer
Dim save_name As String
'Place path to sav to on next line. Note that you must include the
'final backslash
Const save_path As String = "X:\SHARE\VCMS CSV\CSV\"

StrID = MyMail.EntryID
Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objMail = objNS.GetItemFromID(strID)

If objMail.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
For c = 1 To objMail.Attachments.Count
Set objAtt = objMail.Attachments(c)
Save_name = Left(objAtt.FileName, Len(objAtt.FileName) - 4)
'save_name = save_name & Format(objMail.ReceivedTime, "_mm-dd-yyyy_hhmm")
Save_name = save_name & Right(objAtt.FileName, 4)
ObjAtt.SaveAsFile save_path & save_name

Next
End If

Set objAtt = Nothing
Set objMail = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing
End Sub

-reply by Nano

Replying to Feedbacker

Great advice Feedbacker, this worked perfectly.

-reply by Sean