Adam Howitt's Blog

Mar 22
2005

Validate attachments in Outlook

This may not seem like an exciting post but I just found a script I was going to write after another Homer Simpson Doh! moment.  You know how it goes:

From: me

To: Someone important in the company

Subject: Reference our meeting  

Message: Please find attached a copy of my notes from the meeting blah, blah, blah

Send. Oh no.  Forgot to attach the files.  Desperately yank behind the computer to remove the Ethernet cables.  Glance at screen to notice the empty outbox. Arse.

Maybe I'm the only one who has done that an annoying number of times but I was going to crank out some VB to prompt me if the text contained the word attach but thought I'd search first.  I found Dan Evans' Script and just installed it successfully.  I basically followed method 2 on that page without the selfcert.exe step and it worked just fine.  Thanks Dan!

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  1. Brilliant!

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