Article ID: 198629
Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 98 Standard Edition
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
REFERENCES
For more information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook 98, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
180826 OL98: Resources for Custom Forms and Programming
182349 OL98: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions
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