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

• Microsoft Outlook 98

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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• 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:

Q180826 OL98: Resources for Custom Forms and Programming

Q182349 OL98: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions

Additional query words: kbMsg kbOutlookObj kbOutlook97 kbOutlook98 OutSol98 vbscript 98

Keywords          : kbdta kbMsg kbOutlook98 kbOutlookObj 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: April 9, 1999