HOWTO: Use CDO to Set Up Reply to Alternate Recipient

• Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), versions 1.1, 1.2, 1.21

SUMMARY

This article describes and gives sample code on how to use Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) to set an alternate "Reply To" recipient of a message. This functionality, when enabled on a message, automatically populates the Recipients collection of the message with a recipient other than the original sender (which is the default) when the recipient of this message selects 'Reply'.

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Sample Code

   ' The following Visual Basic code sample assumes the a
   ' reference has been made to the CDO library. If you are
   ' using CDO version 1.1, preface the constants used below with
   ' "ActMsg" instead of "Cdo".
   '
   ' Example - Change CdoPR_REPLY_RECIPIENT_NAMES to
   '                  ActMsgPR_REPLY_RECIPIENT_NAMES
   '

   Option Explicit
   Dim objSession As MAPI.Session
   Dim objMsg As Message
   Dim objAltRecip As Recipient
   Dim g_bstrReplyToID As Variant
   Dim g_bstrReplyToName As String
   Dim FlatLength As String
   Dim StructLength As Integer

   Dim bstrFlatEntry As Variant
   Dim bstrBlob As Variant

   Private Sub Form_Load()
     Set objSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session")
     objSession.Logon "My Profile Name"

     'Create Message and add a Recipient.
     Set objMsg = objSession.Outbox.Messages.Add( _
                   Subject:="This is the subject line", _
                   Text:="This is the body of the message")

     objMsg.Recipients.Add Name:="NameOfMyMsgRecipient"
     objMsg.Recipients.Resolve

     'Enable the Alternate Recipient functionality
     '--------------------------------------------
     ' 1. Get an AddrEntry for the Alternate Recipient.
     Set objAltRecip = objMsg.Recipients.Add(Name:="NameOfMyMsgAltRecip")
     objAltRecip.Resolve

     ' 2. Assign the ID and Name to variables for subsequent use.
     g_bstrReplyToID = objAltRecip.ID
     g_bstrReplyToName = objAltRecip.Name

     ' 3. Remove the Alternate Recipient from the Recipient list (if
     '    applicable).
     objAltRecip.Delete

     ' 4. Hash the ID into a BSTR that looks like a FLATENTRYLIST structure
     ' Calculate the length of a string converted Hex representation of the
     ' alt recips EntryID.
     ' Divide this value by to to calculate how long this will appear to
     ' MAPI when it views it as a numeric value rather than as a string (or
     ' more appropriately char.)
     FlatLength = CStr(Hex(Len(g_bstrReplyToID) / 2))

     ' Concatenate members of the FLATENTRY stucture: A) Length of entire
     ' FLATENTRY
     ' structure, B) Padding, C) ENTRYID of Alt Recip
     bstrFlatEntry = FlatLength & "000000" & g_bstrReplyToID

     ' Now calculate the length of the entire FLATENTRY structure as a
     ' string and again divide by 2 to determine length when viewed as a
     ' numeric value.
     StructLength = Hex(Len(bstrFlatEntry) / 2)

     ' Assemble the components of the FLATENTRYLIST structure: A)
     ' "01000000" ' defines how many FLATENTRY structures there are in
     ' the FLATENTRYLIST (plus padding) -
     ' There is only 1 in this sample, B) the length of the first (and
     ' only) FLATENTRY array member, C) more padding, D) the EntryID of the
     ' Alt Recip (as a string)
     bstrBlob = "01000000" & StructLength & "000000" & bstrFlatEntry

     ' Write the values to the fields
     objMsg.Fields.Add CdoPR_REPLY_RECIPIENT_NAMES, g_bstrReplyToName
     objMsg.Fields.Add CdoPR_REPLY_RECIPIENT_ENTRIES, bstrBlob 

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q171440 Where to Acquire the Collaboration Data Objects Libraries

Q176916 INFO: Active Messaging and Collaboration Data Objects

Q174211 HOWTO: Access Message Property Not Exposed by Active Messaging

Additional query words: ActMsg ReplyTo

Keywords          : kbcode kbCDO110 kbCDO120 kbCDO121 kbMsg kbVBp kbGrpMsg 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.1,1.2,1.21
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: August 3, 1999