Microsoft KB Archive/198629

= OL98: ReplyRecipients Property Is Read/Write, Not Read-only =

Article ID: 198629

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q198629





SUMMARY
The Outlook Visual Basic Reference (Vbaoutl.hlp) incorrectly states the ReplyRecipients property of a MailItem object is read-only. The property is actually read/write.



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The following code demonstrates how to set the ReplyRecipients property of a MailItem object. Before using the following Visual Basic automation code:


 * Create a reference to the "Microsoft Outlook 98 Object Model."
 * Make necessary changes to the code as indicated in the comments below.

Sub AddReplyRecipients Dim oApp As Outlook.Application Dim oNS As Outlook.NameSpace Dim oUser1 As Outlook.Recipient Dim oUser2 As Outlook.Recipient Dim oMyItem As Outlook.MailItem

Set oApp = New Outlook.Application Set oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Set oMyItem = oApp.CreateItem(olMailItem) oMyItem.Subject = "test" oMyItem.Body = "Hello, body"

' replace "User1" with a valid e-mail alias Set oUser1 = oNS.CreateRecipient("User1") oUser1.Resolve oMyItem.ReplyRecipients.Add oUser1

' replace "User2" with a valid e-mail alias Set oUser2 = oNS.CreateRecipient("User2") oUser2.Resolve oMyItem.To = oUser2 oMyItem.Send Set oMyItem = Nothing Set oUser1 = Nothing Set oUser2 = Nothing Set oNS = Nothing Set oApp = Nothing End Sub

