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Help with custom Outlook actions. I want to automatically take an email and "save as" a file on my computer?

NOT the .pst stuff.

You know, like how you can drag and drop an email in a Windows folder or click an email and "Save As" an HTML on your computer. I want to set up a rule or macro or script that will take a message from person A and automatically move/save a copy in a folder on my hard drive for email from that person.

It has been 7 years since I've done any VB so I am a bit rusty and I haven't written my own script in Outlook before, but have in Access and of course programming in visual studios. So I am familiar with programming, just really rusty.

If there is already an add-in for this that would be great!

Also, can i keep a copy marked as "not read" in my inbox but move it to a folder called "sorted" so I know there is a copy of it on my hard drive as a HTML so I can just read and delete with no troubles?

Thanks for ANY help or pointing me to some help!

Update:

I want to automatically do that. I know how to do it manually, or partially manually, as you said. I appreciate the help but am looking to streamline it more than that.

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    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    If you can use an Outlook rule to move or copy these emails to a folder, you may not need a script for the rest, depending on your needs. Once you have copies all in one folder, you can just select all of them and save them.

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