Automatic BCC in Outlook

[jimnoble]

I route all of my inbound mail through a Gmail account for despamming and archiving. I also BCC all outbound mail to that same Gmail account so that it too will be archived. Remembering to do the latter each time was a pain so I eventually found out how to automate the process.

This method works in Outlook 2003 and I've been using it for months. It doesn't work in earlier versions but will probably work in later ones.

It involves:

- adding a macro to Outlook (a slightly scary operation) and later claiming authorship of it.
- telling Office to trust all macros written by you.

This probably isn't for newbies or the faint hearted so I'll not give  blow by blow instructions. Instead, here are the references that I used. I urge you to read both of them before doing anything.

To automatically Bcc all outgoing messages (I used the first method). You can get to Outlook's Visual Basic editor from Tools|Macros. Open up the folders at top left to reach ThisOutlookSession.

Signing your own macros with SelfCert.exe

Those two websites also appear to contain lots of other useful info BTW.

[Brian Thompson]

Jim,

I've just seen this post of yours and as I use Gmail in the same way as you and manually Bcc every email to myself to put a copy of sent emails in my Gmail account, I copied the macro (No1) and installed it. I then tested it and it worked OK without having to self certify it. Neither did I need to change the Outlook security setting (of 'warnings for signed macros; all unsigned macros are disabled'). Perhaps it ignores macros created in your own Outlook and only checks incoming ones? Any ideas? I use Office 2007.

Brian

[jimnoble]

Maybe Outlook 2007 is laxer .