Creating a new Microsoft Outlook message as a "Sent Message"

Hello all,

I'm currently involved in complex project of which one piece is to convert a Lotus Notes DXL to an Outlook Message. This works just fine for creating new messages, I have been able to parse the DXL and create an HTML message and save it. The problem is, this assumes that the message is a new message, with the "To" and "CC" fields.

What I need is to create a message as if it has already been sent. So it would have "From" fields in it. As the DXL files are exports of sent messages from Lotus Notes.

The From member of the Outlook API is a read only property, so I assume that this is not easily done from within the Outlook API. So, is it possible? And if not, is there any other way to create an Outlook MSG file outside of the API?

Thank you in advance,

Darren Bridle

My apologies, versions as follows:

Outlook 2007
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
.NET Version 4
Windows 7 64 bit OS.