Outlook Recipient (how to determine?)

[cafeenman]

Has anyone ever figured out a simple way to find out who the MAIN recipient is in Outlook?

I've done a lot of searching and from what I can tell there is no easy way. What Outlook gives you instead is a Recipient list that you have to iterate through and then I don't know what. It was too convoluted and messy for me to dive deeper into it. In the end I'm not even sure it was possible to figure out anything more than a list of the CC's and everyone else who got the e-mail.

Did I miss something or is it really that difficult? This is something I've wanted to put in my software for a long time and haven't been able to figure out.

Thanks.

[Arnoutdv]

I've never heard of the term "main recipient".
In mail you have 3 possible places for recipients: to:, cc: and bcc:
But they are all 3 just basic lists of email addresses.

[Eduardo-]

What Outlook gives you instead is a Recipient list that you have to iterate through

Yes, because the "main" recipients may be several addresses and not only one.

When you write an email in the field "To:" you can write as many addresses as you want (separated by ';'), did you see that?

[Thierry69]

try this
Dim objOutlook As Object

Dim nI As Long
Dim pColValue As New Collection
Dim pColID As New Collection

2 Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

3 On Error Resume Next
4 For nI = 1 To objOutlook.session.Accounts.Count
5 pColValue.Add objOutlook.session.Accounts.Item(nI), objOutlook.session.Accounts.Item(nI)
6 pColID.Add objOutlook.session.Accounts.Item(nI), objOutlook.session.Accounts.Item(nI)
7 Next
8 On Error GoTo ERROR_Outlook_ChooseMailbox

[cafeenman]

Thank you. I will try that.

Out of curiosity, what does the 'p' in the prefix stand for or signify?

[cafeenman]

Yes, because the "main" recipients may be several addresses and not only one.

When you write an email in the field "To:" you can write as many addresses as you want (separated by ';'), did you see that?

In my case, emails I receive I'm the only recipient but my company has multiple email addresses and I want to show in the communication form which address received it.

[Thierry69]

p -> private

[Arnoutdv]

In my case, emails I receive I'm the only recipient but my company has multiple email addresses and I want to show in the communication form which address received it.

Then the list will contain only one item..

[cafeenman]

OK. Again, thank you. I will try it and see how it goes. Hopefully it's that simple.