Retrieving Email Address form Outlook

[MWelicka]

Does any one know how to retrieve an email address from an outlook email? I am using this method to retrieve the email attachments, Sender name and subject but I can't figure out how to retrieve the senders email address.

Set olapp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set mnamespace = olapp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Dim allmessages As Items
Set allmessages = mnamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Mel

[HDR]

How about trying the ReplyRecipient.Address. I haven't done this before, but it looks promising.

[MWelicka]

Maybe I am missing something but I can't find the ReplyRecipient.address property. Where is it?

[HDR]

ReplyRecipient is a property of the MailItem object that we probably fill in. I can't find the e-mail address of the sender either. I'll look around and see what I can find.

[HDR]

I found the answer. Not a good one.

"In Microsoft Outlook, only the sender's Display Name of the original message is added to the body when a message is forwarded or replied to. If the recipient wants to send mail to the original sender, only the Display Name is available. In a Microsoft Exchange Server organization, it is possible to look up the address in the global address list; however, if the original sender is outside of the Exchange Server organization and has no custom recipient entry, it may be impossible to find the e-mail address of the original sender."

Sorry.

[nickymigs]

HDR,
I see that you found a way to do a lookup of a users email address in exchange. I was looking for a way to do that also. Could you let me know how to do it?
I am looking to send a reminder email to each user, whos NT user names are in a list.
Thanks for the help.
And if your really feeling like a challenge, maybe you know of or can find out a way to just post a reminder instead of sending them an email!

Thanks for the help.
NM

[gmarsh]

I found an ingenious solution to this problem (i think). Here's how to get the e-mail address of an incoming e-mail:

1. Install the Generic / Text Only printer in Windows 98. Set it to print to a file.

2. In Visual Basic, use the line "mailitem.PrintOut" (where mailitem is the Outlook.MailItem that you want to get the e-mail address of).

3. Open the file you just printed, at the top you'll see:

To: Real Name [[email protected]]

4. grab this address!

Right now, the only problem I've encountered is that the Windows print driver asks you for the file that you want to print to. There's gotta be a workaround for this.

Hope this helps. :-)

- GM

[Cubic]

Hi,

Which version of Outlook are you using?

In Outlook 2000 I think it is possible to do the following:
Access the ReplyRecipients collection in the mailitem you are interested in. From that you can extract the recipients E-mail address.

I haven't tried this though but it looks like it should work.

Good luck !

[navnit]

dim allmessages as outlook.items
dim item as outlook.mailitem
Set olapp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set mnamespace = olapp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Dim allmessages As Items
Set allmessages = mnamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items
for each item in allmessages.items
msgbox item.sendername
next

if item.sendername just gives u sender name and not email address then u have to parse sender emailid from
item.Reply.Body

try hope will work

[DaveBarrett]

Hi.

I read this thread with interest (noting it is a couple of years old!). I am currently involved in a project that requires obtaining the sender's email address using the Outlook object model.

I am glad to say that my project is near completion, and that I have overcome the problem detailed in this thread.

To obtain the sender's email, try this:

function FindSender(theItem as MailItem) as string
Dim reply As MailItem
Dim sender As String

Set reply = theItem.reply
sender = reply.Recipients(1).Address
FindSender = sender
reply.Delete
end function


The (rather obvious, once I finally stopped pulling my hair out) logic is that any reply will obviously be TO the sender, so the recipient can simply be obtained from this.

Note that the only exception to this is when the ReplyTo address in the email is different to that of the sender, but this isn't an issue in my case and I doubt it will be in most others.