Hello all,

Upfront, I know nothing about VB at all...except that it stands for Visual Basic. I searched the forums in hopes that maybe my particular question had miracuously answered several times over and I could cut and paste the script right in and take up very little of your time.....no such luck.

Anyway...the deal is the company I work for uses MS Outlook 2003, and in my dept. we monitor (monitor as is a person watches it) an account we have set up, which receives emails from our customers in the field. Occasionally, something occurs that stops us from being able to receive these emails, and when that happens...its bad juju. Basically, and to use terms I hope you understand, we want a 'bot' to watch the inbox (or whatever folder) to keep a timer on when the last time we receieved an email containing a particular text. (There would actually be 2 of these timers running, as there are two different types of email that would come in, but if I can make one...I should be able to make another...I hope...)

Anyway, I guess my main question here is, can anyone point me somewhere that I can find some quick and dirty info on writing an Outlook Macro / VB Script that can handle this?? I have searched the web and to say that its convoluted is an understatement.

Thank you for your time and any help is appreciated!!

-Koil