Question

Obtaining email message information using Redemption (that works with Office 2002!)

Asked by: pauldonson

Following on from this question:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/MS_Access/Access_Coding-Macros/Q_23695626.html

I find that the line:

strSender = msg.SenderName

does not work with versions of Outlook older than 2003 - and I need it to!

I have used the following code to extract the sender name:

Dim objRecips As Object, objReply As Object, objRecip As Object
Set objReply = msg.Reply
Set objRecips = objReply.Recipients
For Each objRecip In objRecips
    strSender = objRecip.Address
Next

I have attached the full code for the context.

But I don't know how to get this to work with Redemption. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Dim appOutlook As Object
Dim msg As Object
Set msg = New Redemption.SafeMailItem
Dim FileName As String
Dim strSender As String
 
Set appOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.application")
 
Dim ins As Object
Set ins = New Redemption.SafeInspector
Set ins = appOutlook.activeinspector
 
If ins Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox "No Email item is open.", vbExclamation, "Error"
    Exit Sub
End If
 
If ins.currentitem.Class <> 43 Then
    MsgBox "Only Email items can be imported.", vbExclamation, "Error"
    Exit Sub
End If
 
msg.Item = ins.currentitem
 
Dim objRecips As Object, objReply As Object, objRecip As Object
Set objReply = msg.Reply
Set objRecips = objReply.Recipients
For Each objRecip In objRecips
    strSender = objRecip.Address
Next
'strSender = msg.SenderName 'Doesn't work with Office XP

                                  
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Asked On
2008-09-02 at 05:46:09ID23695758
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,

Access 2003

Topics

Access Coding/Macros

,

Outlook Groupware Software

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Answers

 

by: BlueDevilFanPosted on 2008-09-02 at 18:28:27ID: 22373320

Hi, pauldonson.

You can get the sender's name by creating a reply to the original message and looking at the lone recipient of that reply.


 

by: pauldonsonPosted on 2008-09-03 at 02:39:50ID: 22375379

Isn't that what I'm doing?

 

by: BlueDevilFanPosted on 2008-09-03 at 02:55:35ID: 22375473

Apologies, I didn't look through the code.  I read this line

   strSender = msg.SenderName

and fixated on it.  

So, the question is simply how to do a reply using Redemption?  If so, then I believe the answer is to empliy the snippet below.  Once you have the reply in the Redemption SafeMailItem you can process the recipients through the redReply.Recipients collection.

Set redReply = CreateObject("Redemption.SafeMailItem")
Set objReply = msg.Reply
redReply.Item = objReply

                                              
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by: pauldonsonPosted on 2008-09-03 at 05:51:20ID: 22376619

Still struggling with this!

This is where I am up to. obJRecips is empty though?

Dim redReply As Object, objRecips As Object, objRecip As Object
Set redReply = CreateObject("Redemption.SafeMailItem")
redReply.Item = msg.Reply
Set objRecips = redReply.Recipients
For Each objRecip In objRecips
    strSender = objRecip.Address
Next

                                              
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by: BlueDevilFanPosted on 2008-09-03 at 15:13:17ID: 22382531

Try this version.

Dim redReply As redemption.SafeMailItem, _
objRecips As Outlook.Recipients, _
objRecip As Outlook.Recipient, _
objReply As Outlook.MailItem
Set redReply = CreateObject("Redemption.SafeMailItem")
Set objReply = Msg.Reply
redReply.Item = objReply
Set objRecips = redReply.Item.Recipients
For Each objRecip In objRecips
    strSender = objRecip.Address
Next

                                              
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by: pauldonsonPosted on 2008-09-04 at 01:08:39ID: 22385020

Thanks, I had to modify the code as I have to use late binding due to the umpteen different versions of Outlook I have to support. I changed it to the code attached and I get the message that ActiveX component can't create object at the first CreateObject line (Outlook.Recipients). Grrr...

Any suggestions?

Dim redReply As Redemption.SafeMailItem
Dim objRecips As Object
Set objRecips = CreateObject("Outlook.Recipients") 'fails here
Dim objRecip As Object
Set objRecip = CreateObject("Outlook.Recipient")
Dim objreply As Object
Set objreply = CreateObject("Outlook.MailItem")
Set redReply = CreateObject("Redemption.SafeMailItem")
Set objreply = msg.Reply
redReply.Item = objreply
Set objRecips = redReply.Item.Recipients
For Each objRecip In objRecips
    strSender = objRecip.Address
Next

                                              
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by: BlueDevilFanPosted on 2008-09-04 at 02:31:23ID: 22385455

I don't understand why you added the CreateObject lines for the three Outlook items.  They're unnecessary.  Remove them all.

 

by: pauldonsonPosted on 2008-09-04 at 06:28:45ID: 22386962

OK, I removed the 3 createobject lines (but still dimmed them as "Object") and I now get the security warnings again.

 

by: BlueDevilFanPosted on 2008-09-04 at 19:01:16ID: 22394582

Ok, try this.

Set redReply = CreateObject("Redemption.SafeMailItem")
Set objReply = Msg.Reply
objReply.Save
redReply.Item = objReply
For Each redRecip In redReply.Recipients
    strSender = redRecip.Address
Next

                                              
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by: pauldonsonPosted on 2008-09-05 at 08:40:59ID: 31492312

Fantastic, thanks for your perseverance!

 

by: pauldonsonPosted on 2008-09-05 at 09:01:55ID: 22400451

I spoke too soon!

This method works, but it leaves a copy of the bogus reply in the drafts folder.

I have added the line objReply.Delete which moves it into the deleted folder but as unread which is a bit of a nusiance.

Any suggestions how to get round it?

 

by: pauldonsonPosted on 2008-09-05 at 09:03:34ID: 22400479

Update:

I have also noted that the email we are importing now says "You replied on..." which isn't true (as far as the user is concerned)

 

by: BlueDevilFanPosted on 2008-09-08 at 16:06:54ID: 22422431

Outlook has an odd way of determining when a mail has been replied to.  If you click reply and then cancel, Outlook will still say that the message was replied to.  There's nothing that can be done about that.

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