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How can I get the email address from a Distribution List member (DL belongs to GAL)?

Asked by: Helen_Feddema

I am working with Distribution Lists that are members of the Global Address List.  In code, I can only get Name and Address values, and the Address is a long connect string, not the email address.  How can I get the email address?  Also, GetContact doesn't seem to work to get the associated ContactItem.  Any suggestions on that?

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2009-10-19 at 10:17:27ID24824308
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Answers

 

by: Helen_FeddemaPosted on 2009-10-19 at 10:18:32ID: 25607063

One oddity I noticed:  all the members of the GAL are listed as Class 8 (AddressEntry), even the distribution lists.  How can I distinguish the entries that are DLs?

 

by: Helen_FeddemaPosted on 2009-10-19 at 10:25:55ID: 25607136

What I am after is iterating through the GAL, listing the names of DLs to a listbox on a UserForm (I have that working, but only through hard-coding of DL names), then working with the selected DL to extract names, emails and other info to a text file.  That is working in a limited fashion; it only gets the name and useless connect string.

 

by: Helen_FeddemaPosted on 2009-10-23 at 07:39:09ID: 25644832

I figured this out -- you have to use different objects, in particular ExchangeUser (instead of ContactItem) and ExchangeDistributionList (instead of DistListItem).  Look up these objects in the Object Browser to see their properties.  Here is some sample code:

   'Process selected distribution list
   Set nms = appOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
   Set addGAL = nms.AddressLists("Global Address List")
   
   Set entList = addGAL.AddressEntries(strDLName)
   Set dl = entList.GetExchangeDistributionList
   
   Set itms = dl.GetExchangeDistributionListMembers
   
   For Each itm In itms
      Set entMember = itm
      
      If entMember.AddressEntryUserType = olExchangeUserAddressEntry Then
         Set exc = entMember.GetExchangeUser
         Debug.Print "Exchange user name: " & exc.Name
         
         'Email
         strEmail = exc.PrimarySmtpAddress
         

                                              
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by: jjdurrantPosted on 2009-10-26 at 10:24:45ID: 25664556

Use ExchangeDistributionList  and ExchangeUser

 

by: jjdurrantPosted on 2009-10-26 at 10:25:14ID: 25664563

doh... I just realized you figured this out :)

 

by: Helen_FeddemaPosted on 2009-10-26 at 10:45:46ID: 25664768

Yes -- one of the (increasingly rare) cases where Microsoft Help is actually helpful.

 

by: jjdurrantPosted on 2009-10-26 at 10:53:19ID: 25664844

Ha!!!

 

by: Helen_FeddemaPosted on 2009-10-26 at 11:02:16ID: 31643001

I did figure it out, but if I hadn't, this would have been very helpful.

 

by: dugutigiPosted on 2010-02-10 at 15:55:23ID: 26540391

Helen ... do you have the entire code block available for this?  I have a Distribution List in my Outlook Contacts.  However, all of the names on the DL are from the Global Address List.  I would like to look up the Street Address, City, State, etc in the GAL for each user on the DL with VBA.  Any idea how I might do that?

I have the following but it finds nothing for each record.

Dim olkDL As Outlook.DistListItem, _
        olkEntry As Outlook.Recipient, _
        olkContact As Outlook.ContactItem, _
        intCount As Integer, _
        strAddress As String
       
        Dim objAddrEntries As AddressEntries
        Dim objAddressEntry As AddressEntry
       

    'Get the currently selected distribution list'
    Set olkDL = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection(1)
    For intCount = 1 To olkDL.MemberCount
        Set olkEntry = olkDL.GetMember(intCount)
        strAddress = olkEntry.AddressEntry.Address
        Set olkContact = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts).Items.Find("[Email1Address] = '" & strAddress & "' OR [Email2Address] = '" & strAddress & "' OR [Email3Address] = '" & strAddress & "'")
       
        If TypeName(olkContact) = "Nothing" Then
            Debug.Print "Not found: " & strAddress
        Else
            Debug.Print olkContact.BusinessAddressCity & ", " & olkContact.BusinessAddressState
        End If
    Next
    Set olkEntry = Nothing
    Set olkDL = Nothing

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