Problems with custom forms

[ddonate]

Hi,

I have 2 PCs, with Outlook 2003 and OL 2007, and I have created a custom form based on a mail from the Inbox ("IPM.Note.MyForm"). I need to have it as the default form used in my Outlook, when I open any mail received in my inbox.

I have published it in the Inbox folder (I can see it in "Tools-Options-...-Manage Form") and I have used the Forms Administrator (with "IPM.Note.MyForm") to modify the registry (office\11.0 for OL 2003, 12.0 for 2007).

However, when I receive a mail it is not open using my custom form. Must I do sth. else?



*** Other test - questions:

- If I send a mail from a PC with the registry modified ('compose'), this mail is opened using my custom form!!!, even if I have not modified the registry (in the registry I can see the default "IPM.Note"). I suppose that is because the form to use is in the mail sent, and I just must have it published...

- Is it right that the inbox mail icon (in the previous case) is different from the envelop? It is like a 'note', is it related to 'IMP.Note'? Related to that, in the Inbox folder properties, I can see "When posting to this folder, Use: 'IPM.Post'... ¿? Which one is the correct? I thought it was 'IPM.Note' for mails...

- Using a VB project, I have:
Set oSession = CreateObject("Redemption.RDOSession")
Set oInbox = oSession.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
MsgBox "oInbox.DefaultMessageClass: " & oInbox.DefaultMessageClass
and it it 'IPM.Note', not the custom one...

Could you help me? Thanks in advance

Diego

[Steve R Jones]

Aren't forms only used when creating mail and contacts?

Trying to take incoming mail and convert the into into a certain format/form seems like an impossible task.

[ddonate]

Thanks for your reply, Steve.

I thought that you can set a custom form as the default in the PC registry. And there are 2 fields there, 'compose' and 'read', I understood the 2nd one was the custom you would like the Outlook use when opening a mail... Is it right?

[Steve R Jones]

The thought of getting a mail with pics/charts/graphs/and 3000 words of text and then having Outlook rearrange it into a form doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

Maybe if you have something very specific in mind there might be another way to do it.