Greetings --

I'm trying to automate the process of detecting certain incoming emails and
writing them out as plain text files under Outlook 2003. Am running into a
couple of problems.

I have a rule pointing to a VBA subroutine, and the rule appears to trigger
when I use Run Rules Now. However, the VBA IDE does not behave as I am used
to in Access, Excel and Project. If I set a breakpoint, the code does not
break. Stop statements don't work either. Sometime a MsgBox statement will
pop a message box, sometimes not. Debug.Print statements sometime put
something in the Immediate window, something not. Not being able to set
breakpoints, view the content of variables, watch the loops loop, etc. is
making this very hard.

The underlying task is to read through the messages in the inbox and write
the body of ones that contain a certain keyword out as plain text files.
Between what I've found on the net and my own knowledge of object models,
here's what I've got at this point.

Public Sub ReadMessageBody(oItem As Outlook.MailItem)

Dim strId As String
Dim oNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim oInboxItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim oMailItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim oFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim oMsg As Object
Dim strBody As String

'* point to the name space
Set oNameSpace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")

'* set a reference to the inbox folder
Set oFolder = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

'* loop through the inbox
For Each oInboxItem In oFolder.Items
strId = oInboxItem.EntryID

Set oMailItem = oNameSpace.GetItemFromID(strId)
If Left(oMailItem.Subject, 6) = "Deploy" Then
'* save message body as text
Else
'* something else, ignore
End If
Next oInboxItem

End Sub

As best I can determine with no debugging capability is that the sub is
called, but does not enter the For...Next loop. Also, it appears to fire
once per file in the Inbox.

Can anyone give me any suggestions on how the use the IDE in Outlook? This
would be a lot easier to get working if I could used the debugger in the
usual fashion.

Thanks a million...