MailItem.AttachmentAdd Event (Outlook)

Office 2010

Occurs when an attachment has been added to an instance of the parent object.

expression .AttachmentAdd(Attachment)

expression A variable that represents a MailItem object.

Parameters

Name

Required/Optional

Data Type

Description

Attachment

Required

Attachment

The Attachment that was added to the item.

This Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example checks the size of the item after an attachment has been added and displays a warning if the size exceeds 500,000 bytes. The sample code must be placed in a class module such as ThisOutlookSession, and the TestAttachAdd() procedure should be called before the event procedure can be called by Microsoft Outlook.

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Public WithEvents newItem As Outlook.MailItem 
 
 
 
Private Sub newItem_AttachmentAdd(ByVal newAttachment As Attachment) 
 
 If newAttachment.Type = olByValue Then 
 
 newItem.Save 
 
 If newItem.Size > 500000 Then 
 
 MsgBox "Warning: Item size is now " & newItem.Size & " bytes." 
 
 End If 
 
 End If 
 
End Sub 
 
 
 
Public Sub TestAttachAdd() 
 
 Dim atts As Outlook.Attachments 
 
 Dim newAttachment As Outlook.Attachment 
 
 
 
 Set newItem = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem) 
 
 newItem.Subject = "Test attachment" 
 
 Set atts = newItem.Attachments 
 
 Set newAttachment = atts.Add("C:\Test.txt", olByValue) 
 
End Sub
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