This article will teach you a quick trick using VBA to let Outlook auto prompt you whether to send a notification email when you haven’t received the reply of a specific email within a specific time.
At times, for the vitally important emails, you will definitely look forward to its replies. In other words, you must hope that the recipient can reply to you as soon as possible. Otherwise, as long as you haven’t yet received the reply within your expected time, you will send a follow-up notification email to the recipient again. Therefore, in response to this requirement, here we will introduce a method that use VBA to make Outlook to auto warn and prompt you in such a case. Read on to get the elaborate steps and codes.
Get a Notification If Not Receiving the Reply of a Specific Email within Expected Time
- At the very outset, start your Outlook.
- Then you need to set a specific reminder time to the specific email.
- Firstly, right click on the specific email.
- Then select “Follow Up” > “Add Reminder”.
- In the dialog box, you can set the reminder time same as the specific time within which you want to receive its reply.
- After that, press “Alt + F11” key buttons to access Outlook VBA editor.
- Next in the new window, open the “ThisOutlookSession” project and copy the following codes into it.
Public WithEvents objInboxItems As Outlook.Items Private Sub Application_Startup() Set objInboxItems = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items End Sub 'If receive the reply, clear the flag and remove the reminder Private Sub objInboxItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object) Dim objSentItems As Outlook.Items Dim objVariant As Variant Dim i As Long Dim strSubject As String Dim dSendTime As String Set objSentItems = Outlook.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail).Items If Item.Class = olMail Then For i = 1 To objSentItems.Count If objSentItems.Item(i).Class = olMail Then Set objVariant = objSentItems.Item(i) strSubject = LCase(objVariant.Subject) dSendTime = objVariant.SentOn If LCase(Item.Subject) = "re: " & strSubject Or InStr(LCase(Item.Subject), strSubject) > 0 Then If Item.SentOn > dSendTime Then With objVariant .ClearTaskFlag .ReminderSet = False .Save End With End If End If End If Next i End If End Sub 'Get a prompt asking if to send a notification email Private Sub Application_Reminder(ByVal Item As Object) Dim strPrompt As String Dim nResponse As Integer Dim objFollowUpMail As Outlook.MailItem 'You can change the subject as per your real case If (Item.Class = olMail) And (LCase(Item.Subject) = "datanumen outlook repair") Then strPrompt = "You haven't yet recieved the reply of " & Chr(34) & Item.Subject & Chr(34) & " within your expected time. Do you want to send a follow-up notification email?" nResponse = MsgBox(strPrompt, vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Confirm to Send a Follow-Up Notification Email") If nResponse = vbYes Then Set objFollowUpMail = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem) With objFollowUpMail .To = Item.Recipients.Item(1).Address .Subject = "Follow Up: " & Chr(34) & Item.Subject & Chr(34) .Body = "Please respond to my email " & Chr(34) & Item.Subject & Chr(34) & "as soon as possible" .attachments.Add Item .Display End With End If End If End Sub
- Subsequently, sign this code.
- Later change Outlook macro setting to permit the digitally signed macros.
- Eventually restart Outlook to activate the new macro. From now on, Outlook will work as the followings:
- If you have received the reply of the specific email before its reminder pops up, Outlook will auto clear the flag and disable the reminder.
- If you haven’t received the reply when its reminder fires, Outlook will ask you if to send a follow-up notification email. If you select “Yes”, the email will be sent out. If select “No”, the prompt will disappear at once.
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