It can be very useful torun a VBA macro when new mail is received in Outlook. A customer asked me to write something that would log an entry to a SQL database when a contact form was received.

It’s easy to do but can take a bit of trial and error to get working just how you want it.

You need to add an event listener to the Inbox which will process incoming messages. A the following code to ThisOutlookSession:

Option Explicit
Private WithEvents inboxItems As Outlook.Items

Private Sub Application_Startup()
  Dim outlookApp As Outlook.Application
  Dim objectNS As Outlook.NameSpace
  
  Set outlookApp = Outlook.Application
  Set objectNS = outlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
  Set inboxItems = objectNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items
End Sub

Private Sub inboxItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler

Dim Msg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim MessageInfo
Dim Result
If TypeName(Item) = "MailItem" Then
    MessageInfo = "" & _
        "Sender : " & Item.SenderEmailAddress & vbCrLf & _
        "Sent : " & Item.SentOn & vbCrLf & _
        "Received : " & Item.ReceivedTime & vbCrLf & _
        "Subject : " & Item.Subject & vbCrLf & _
        "Size : " & Item.Size & vbCrLf & _
        "Message Body : " & vbCrLf & Item.Body
    Result = MsgBox(MessageInfo, vbOKOnly, "New Message Received")
End If

ExitNewItem:
    Exit Sub

ErrorHandler:
    MsgBox Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description
    Resume ExitNewItem
End Sub

You need to restart Outlook for the code to become active.

The above code will produce a simple message box that shows some of the message properties:

You can of course do whatever you like with the message when it is received. I used it to insert rows into a SQL table, then move the message to a different folder. It works very well.

It’s worth taking a look at all of the available properties of the Outlook mailitem that are available:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/microsoft.office.interop.outlook.mailitem_properties.aspx

As this customer is on Office 365 I might investigate the possibility of replicating this functionality with Microsoft Flow.