Hi Sue -- Points well taken. What I did is driven partly by our processing requirments, and partly due to my inexperience with programming Outlook. (I can make Access and Excel sing and dance, but this is my first attempt at automated processing of incoming email.) Here's a capsule on our situation and my thought process, and am open wide to feedback. I've got a question for you at the end. We have some software that creates very large log files as it runs, but no built in tools to analyze the logs. We have an Access database that parses the log files, and loads some tables so we can query this data. Currently, we save these log files by hand. Because our software sends out an automated email with the log file text in the body, I want to automatically save the body of these emails as a plain text file and move the emails to a desingated folder. Based on the research I've done so far, if a lot of emails arrive in a short period of time, a rule that triggers a script may not always fire. Similarly, I've read that the ItemAdd event and the NewMail events don't always fire. Consequently, I thought it prudent to walk the whole inbox, so we don't miss any files. This leads to a question about your suggestion -- if I create a standard VBA program, what is the best way to trigger it when a new email shows up? Should I just write the program to run in a loop, looking for emails that meet its selection criteria? (These log files come from a specific email address and have specific text in the subject line.) This needs to run on a user's PC (particulary mine), so what I do can't tie up the machine. Thanks a million, Mark