How can I automatically flag an email after reply in Outlook

Question

I would like to see if there is any way that anyone replies in a shared mailbox to any email and the email is automatically flagged in outlook. Can be via Power Automate or VBA.

Answer 1

One way or another, you would need to set the MailItem.Categories property and/or MailItem.ReminderSet / ReminderTime properties on the original item in the folder.

You can use Explorer.SelectionChange event to track the item selection, set up MailItem.Reply/ReplyAll event handlers on the item(s) from the Explorer.Selection collection, and then set the reminder properties in the event handler. Or you can use Explorer.InlineResponse event to set up the properties on the first item in the Explorer.Selection collection