Automatically transforming e-mails into task objects

I need an Outlook 2003 addin or some script/code to convert emails to tasks objects that are listed in my Outlook task list. ------------------------------------------------------ HOW I CURRENTLY DO THIS CONVERSION Outlook has 2 methods to change emails into task objects. Both will open up a new Task object and copy/paste and/or attach the email to it. Just highlight an email in your inbox and do one of the following. Method #1: Use the button called “Move to folder “, it will bring up a pull-down menu in which you need to pick your task folder. If your task folder isn’t there use the option at the bottom of the pull down menu to add it. The nice part about Method 1 is that it does all this in one easy step: 1) creates a new task, 2) copy/pastes the e-mail’s text into a new task 3) attaches the email to the task 4) removes the email from the Inbox, it just moved it into the tasks folder as an email (not as a task). Method #2: Drag the email onto the Tasks button in the lower right hand corner of Outlook, or into the Tasks folder if you are in the folder list. You can right-drag it for more features. ------------------------------------------------------ Method #1 is the best way to do it and the way I always do it. This method is best since it both copy/paste the e-mail’s text into the task and then attaches the email to the task as an attachment, and then deletes the email from your inbox. The problem I want help solving is this: A) Method #1 is not a single click. I want to make it a simple single click button. I want to make a custom button in OL to do this to an email in 1 click (When you use Method #1 as described above it is a click and then a drag into a pull down menu) . I tried a simple VBS script to move it to the Tasks folder, but it did not work. All it did was to move the email into the Tasks folder, but as an email, not as a task object. ## Deliverables 1. An Outlook 2003 button that activates a rule/code to transform the selected e-mail into a task object and moves it into the Task folder. 2. The e-mails subject becomes the task subject, unless the user can be prompted to change the subject of the task (it would be sufficient to simply have the new task open up after it was created.) 3. The e-mail text becomes the task text. 4. The e-mail itself is additionally attached to the task, so that e-mail attachments can be accessed. 5. The e-mail is automatically removed from the inbox. Additional deliverables 6. Have steps 1-5 work as well for transforming an e-mail into a calendar object. 7. It would be great to have a rule that triggers this process automatically, triggered by a keyword in the e-mail's subject line (like a rule). 7. It would also be great if the rule could auto-assign a category to this task. Steps 1-5 are the main component of this bid request. I don't know how much effort it is to include the additional deliverables. Please let me now in your bid, which steps you are referring to. ## Platform Win XP Outlook 2003 with an exchange 2003 server