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Hello,

I'm really sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, I'm both new to the board and a (not even a) beginner to writing programs.

I do have experience in HTML/CSS and the adaptation of jQuery and PHP into my front-end code.

Although I appreciate these languages may not help me for this problem.

I work in a email helpdesk and every hour we need to count the number of emails received each day in the Inbox.

I've tried Topalt but it's very limited and doesn't appear to do what we need.

Ideally looking to automate this task so every hour the emails in the inbox are counted and then the data is emailed to three recipients.

We are doing this manually which looks like this:

16th – 31
17th – 390
18th – 357
19th – 333
20th – 900
21st – 911

The program should only count from the oldest day to the present day. So if we clear 16th's emails then it will count from 17th onwards.

For a complete noob like myself, is this something I could do with Visual Basic by following my nose? Or is it a lot more involved than that?

I'm sorry if this is a vague question. I just want to get an idea of whether this is within my grasp to do.

Thank you for your time.