outlook and VB code??

i am trying to create a program that will say whether certain e-mail has ben received, the way idecided to do this is to filter the e-mail in Outlook to a specific folder, then get a script done in visual basic, to run automatically at set time intervals, this will then change the caption in a text box to 'Received' or 'Outstanding', basically stating to whether the e-mail is there or not. My problem is that I don't know whether this can be done or not, does anyone know if it can, and if it can how its done??


ant help on the problem will be greatly appreciated

Check out the "rules wizard" in Outlook. It allows you to do almost anything. You define what the email must look like (certain content, from a certain person, etc), then you say what you want to do when that certain email arrives. You can do things like, start an application, run a script, perform a custom action, play sounds... it's essentially limitless.