Automating a response in outlook

My dad's company often offers free tickets to Rockets games. The offers are emailed to people that work at the company, and the first person to respond usually gets the tickets. Now, many times my father is not at his desk, or other people are just so unbelievably quick to reply that my father never even has a chance. Is there a way I could get outlook to scan all new emails for a certain keyword, and then have it automate a response on the condition that the keyword is found?

If this is doable, could someone please point me in a direction into where I could learn about that. I would prefer learning how to do it in C/C++, but a quick link to a document that describes how to do what I mentioned above in any language is fine.

Thanks.

This is an old post, but AutoIT could do this for you, I'm assuming.

This is an old post, but AutoIT could do this for you, I'm assuming.

Hmm. I'll look into it. Thanks.