MY COLUMNS about working with items arriving in your Inbox
folder have sparked some interesting feedback. One reader who
manages a staff that handles customer complaints wondered
whether a way exists to customize the Inbox to count the number
of messages received.  One method I devised is to maintain an
Outlook item for each day and store the running count in that
item. To hold these items, you must create a Message Count
folder as a subfolder of the Inbox. The code in Listing 1 sets
up the Inbox so that VBA can monitor the Inbox for new items. It
also calls the UpdateCounter subroutine for each new item that
arrives in the Inbox. Put the code from Listing 1 in the
ThisOutlookSession module of the Outlook VBA window.  You'll
find the UpdateCounter procedure in Listing 2, page 158. You can
put this code either into ThisOutlookSession or into a separate
code module. Let's look at how this code works. As the following
lines show, the first message that arrives on a particular day
triggers the creation of a new i