Help with some issues in Outlook Plugin development

[YW5pbmRhc2VuXzA2MDk]

I have developed a outlook plugin project and everything is working ok for me

except for two issues. It would be very helpful for me if anyone could throw

some light on them. They are

1. Cannot retrieve some of the email IDs in the To, CC and BCC fields

from the

Item as Outlook.MailItem object. Instead of the email IDs I am getting

the name of the recipient. Eg. "Tom Cruise" instead of tom@hollywood.com

2. The plugin is not trapping the incoming emails when rules are set for

them to

land directly into some other folder based on their email ID. subject or

other criteria.

Thanking you in advance.

Regards,

Aninda

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

1) If by "email IDs," you mean the email addresses, iterate the Recipients

collection and get each Recipient.Address property value.

2) What event are you using for "trapping the incoming emails"?

Application.NewMailEx is your best choice.

Sue Mosher

"anindasen_0609" <anindasen_0609> wrote in message

news:F7436C01-DC23-4C5D-BEC6-2A16123486E5@microsoft.com...
> I have developed a outlook plugin project and everything is working ok for
> me
> except for two issues. It would be very helpful for me if anyone could
> throw
> some light on them. They are

> 1. Cannot retrieve some of the email IDs in the To, CC and BCC fields
> from the
> Item as Outlook.MailItem object. Instead of the email IDs I am getting
> the name of the recipient. Eg. "Tom Cruise" instead of tom@hollywood.com

> 2. The plugin is not trapping the incoming emails when rules are set for
> them to
> land directly into some other folder based on their email ID. subject or
> other criteria.

> Thanking you in advance.

> Regards,
> Aninda
>

 

[YW5pbmRhc2VuXzA2MDk]

Thanks a lot for your reply.

1. There are some emails which are stored in the address book with a name.

When emails are received from those clients, the object is returning the name

as fromemail instead of the email id. I tried iterating through recipients

collection but it did not work.

2. This is my code. I am taking the MAPIFolder ItemAdd event to trap the

incoming emails.

Earlier I tried with Application.NewMail but it did not work when multiple

emails were coming in.

Outlook.MAPIFolder oMapiFolder =

this.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);

m_Items = oMapiFolder.Items;

m_Items.ItemAdd += new

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(m_Items_ItemAdd);

what is the difference between Application.NewMailEx and Application.NewMail ?

Regards.

"Sue Mosher [MVP]" wrote:


> 1) If by "email IDs," you mean the email addresses, iterate the Recipients
> collection and get each Recipient.Address property value.

> 2) What event are you using for "trapping the incoming emails"?
> Application.NewMailEx is your best choice.

> > Sue Mosher
> > >

> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen_0609> wrote in message
> news:F7436C01-DC23-4C5D-BEC6-2A16123486E5@microsoft.com...
> >I have developed a outlook plugin project and everything is working ok for
> >me
> > except for two issues. It would be very helpful for me if anyone could
> > throw
> > some light on them. They are
> > 1. Cannot retrieve some of the email IDs in the To, CC and BCC fields
> > from the
> > Item as Outlook.MailItem object. Instead of the email IDs I am getting
> > the name of the recipient. Eg. "Tom Cruise" instead of tom@hollywood.com
> > 2. The plugin is not trapping the incoming emails when rules are set for
> > them to
> > land directly into some other folder based on their email ID. subject or
> > other criteria.
> > Thanking you in advance.
> > Regards,
> > Aninda
> >

>

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

1) I'm confused now. Your original post talked about To, Cc, and Bcc

recipients, but now you seem to be referring to the sender. Which is it? In

what version of Outlook? What specifically didn't work? Show the relevant

code snippet.

2) NewMail tells you only that one or more new messages have arrived.

NewMailEx gives you the EntryID information needed to retrieve them. You can

read about the Application.NewMailEx event in the Outlook developer

reference and see a VBA code example at

http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=1410

Sue Mosher

"anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message

newsFDCE5B5-68AF-45A3-8B05-43C7B754FBD2@microsoft.com...
> Thanks a lot for your reply.

> 1. There are some emails which are stored in the address book with a name.
> When emails are received from those clients, the object is returning the
> name
> as fromemail instead of the email id. I tried iterating through recipients
> collection but it did not work.

> 2. This is my code. I am taking the MAPIFolder ItemAdd event to trap the
> incoming emails.

> Earlier I tried with Application.NewMail but it did not work when multiple
> emails were coming in.

> Outlook.MAPIFolder oMapiFolder =
> this.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
> m_Items = oMapiFolder.Items;
> m_Items.ItemAdd += new
> Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(m_Items_ItemAdd);

> what is the difference between Application.NewMailEx and
> Application.NewMail ?

> Regards.

> "Sue Mosher [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > 1) If by "email IDs," you mean the email addresses, iterate the
> > Recipients
> > collection and get each Recipient.Address property value.
>

>> 2) What event are you using for "trapping the incoming emails"?
> > Application.NewMailEx is your best choice.
>

>> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen_0609> wrote in
> > message
> > news:F7436C01-DC23-4C5D-BEC6-2A16123486E5@microsoft.com...
> > >I have developed a outlook plugin project and everything is working ok
> > >for
> > >me
> > > except for two issues. It would be very helpful for me if anyone could
> > > throw
> > > some light on them. They are
> >> > 1. Cannot retrieve some of the email IDs in the To, CC and BCC
> > > fields
> > > from the
> > > Item as Outlook.MailItem object. Instead of the email IDs I am getting
> > > the name of the recipient. Eg. "Tom Cruise" instead of
> > > tom@hollywood.com
> >> > 2. The plugin is not trapping the incoming emails when rules are set
> > > for
> > > them to
> > > land directly into some other folder based on their email ID. subject
> > > or
> > > other criteria.
> >> > Thanking you in advance.
> >> > Regards,
> > > Aninda
> > >
>

>
>>

 

[anindasen_0609]

Thanks for your reply. I am sorry I could not reply earlier.

1) I think I created a confusion. I actually meant all the email fields

ie., From, To, Cc and Bcc. Wherever there is a name for a particular email

address

in the local address book, I am getting the name instead of the email ID.

My function to get email ID against the name is as below:

private string GetEmailID(ref string recipientName)

{

string recipientEmailID = null;

string myQuery = null;

myQuery = "[FullName] = '" + recipientName + "'";

// Create the Outlook application.

Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();

// Get the NameSpace information.

Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi");

// Get the default Contacts folder.

Outlook.MAPIFolder oContacts =

oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);

// Get the Items collection from the folder.

Outlook.Items oItems = (Outlook.Items)oContacts.Items;

// Get the first contact item in the Items collection.

Outlook.ContactItem oCt =

(Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.Find(myQuery);

if (oCt != null)

{

if (oCt.Email1Address.IndexOf("@") != -1)

recipientEmailID = oCt.Email1Address;

else

recipientEmailID = recipientName;

}

else

{

recipientEmailID = recipientName;

}

oCt = null;

oItems = null;

oContacts = null;

oNS = null;

oApp = null;

return recipientEmailID;

}

and I am calling it only when

if (emailAddress.IndexOf("@") <= 0)

{

emailAddress = GetEmailID(ref emailAddress);

}

2) I will definitely look at the resources that you have kindly shared and try

NewMailEx.

3) There is one more problem which I am solving in a rather inelegant way.

I am getting the sender's Email ID from Outlook in a form like:

/O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd

if the email ID is - abcd@domain.com.

We are using Active Directory Service and all that I am doing right now is

taking

out the email name and the domain by string manipulation and getting the

email ID from

the database against that. But I am looking for a more proper solution to

this problem.

Thanks.

Aninda

"Sue Mosher [MVP]" wrote:


> 1) I'm confused now. Your original post talked about To, Cc, and Bcc
> recipients, but now you seem to be referring to the sender. Which is it? In
> what version of Outlook? What specifically didn't work? Show the relevant
> code snippet.

> 2) NewMail tells you only that one or more new messages have arrived.
> NewMailEx gives you the EntryID information needed to retrieve them. You can
> read about the Application.NewMailEx event in the Outlook developer
> reference and see a VBA code example at
> http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=1410
> > Sue Mosher
> > >

> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message
> newsFDCE5B5-68AF-45A3-8B05-43C7B754FBD2@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks a lot for your reply.
> > 1. There are some emails which are stored in the address book with a name.
> > When emails are received from those clients, the object is returning the
> > name
> > as fromemail instead of the email id. I tried iterating through recipients
> > collection but it did not work.
> > 2. This is my code. I am taking the MAPIFolder ItemAdd event to trap the
> > incoming emails.
> > Earlier I tried with Application.NewMail but it did not work when multiple
> > emails were coming in.
> > Outlook.MAPIFolder oMapiFolder =
> > this.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
> > m_Items = oMapiFolder.Items;
> > m_Items.ItemAdd += new
> > Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(m_Items_ItemAdd);
> > what is the difference between Application.NewMailEx and
> > Application.NewMail ?
> > Regards.
> > "Sue Mosher [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> 1) If by "email IDs," you mean the email addresses, iterate the
> >> Recipients
> >> collection and get each Recipient.Address property value.
> >
> >> 2) What event are you using for "trapping the incoming emails"?
> >> Application.NewMailEx is your best choice.
> >
> >> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen_0609> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:F7436C01-DC23-4C5D-BEC6-2A16123486E5@microsoft.com...
> >> >I have developed a outlook plugin project and everything is working ok
> >> >for
> >> >me
> >> > except for two issues. It would be very helpful for me if anyone could
> >> > throw
> >> > some light on them. They are
> >> >> > 1. Cannot retrieve some of the email IDs in the To, CC and BCC
> >> > fields
> >> > from the
> >> > Item as Outlook.MailItem object. Instead of the email IDs I am getting
> >> > the name of the recipient. Eg. "Tom Cruise" instead of
> >> > tom@hollywood.com
> >> >> > 2. The plugin is not trapping the incoming emails when rules are set
> >> > for
> >> > them to
> >> > land directly into some other folder based on their email ID. subject
> >> > or
> >> > other criteria.
> >> >> > Thanking you in advance.
> >> >> > Regards,
> >> > Aninda
> >> >
> >
> >>

>

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Sue's on vacation.

I see a few flaws in your code.

First of all, in an Outlook COM addin, never create a new

Outlook.Application object. Always use the Application object passed to you

in your startup code handler or in OnConnection.

Second, that code will only look at contacts. If a recipient is from the GAL

then you never will find anything.

As Sue recommended it's really best to work with the Recipients collection

and iterate that. You said that didn't work but didn't provide any

information as to why. Each Recipient object has an Address property .

That's what you should be using.

When the Recipient is part of an Exchange domain you won't get back an SMTP

style address, you'll get back an Exchange DN type address such as your

example: /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd.

In those cases you would need to convert the EX address into an SMTP

equivalent. Since you never mention which version or versions of Outlook you

are targeting it's hard to be specific as to how you would convert the

address. Take a look at

http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=4&messageid=13469 for some

suggestions as to how to do that. Note that since you're using managed code

(C#) the CDO option is not available to you, CDO is not supported and should

not be used with managed code.

You can also search at www.outlookcode.com using something like "convert

exchange address to smtp" to look at other forum threads on that topic.

"anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message

news:88E397B3-696F-41AE-B964-C6C4243AA2C6@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for your reply. I am sorry I could not reply earlier.

> 1) I think I created a confusion. I actually meant all the email fields
> ie., From, To, Cc and Bcc. Wherever there is a name for a particular email
> address
> in the local address book, I am getting the name instead of the email ID.

> My function to get email ID against the name is as below:

> private string GetEmailID(ref string recipientName)
> {
> string recipientEmailID = null;
> string myQuery = null;
> myQuery = "[FullName] = '" + recipientName + "'";

> // Create the Outlook application.
> Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
> // Get the NameSpace information.
> Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi");
> // Get the default Contacts folder.
> Outlook.MAPIFolder oContacts =
> oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
> // Get the Items collection from the folder.
> Outlook.Items oItems = (Outlook.Items)oContacts.Items;
> // Get the first contact item in the Items collection.
> Outlook.ContactItem oCt =
> (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.Find(myQuery);

> if (oCt != null)
> {
> if (oCt.Email1Address.IndexOf("@") != -1)
> recipientEmailID = oCt.Email1Address;
> else
> recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> }
> else
> {
> recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> }

> oCt = null;
> oItems = null;
> oContacts = null;
> oNS = null;
> oApp = null;

> return recipientEmailID;
> }

> and I am calling it only when

> if (emailAddress.IndexOf("@") <= 0)
> {
> emailAddress = GetEmailID(ref emailAddress);
> }

> 2) I will definitely look at the resources that you have kindly shared and
> try
> NewMailEx.

> 3) There is one more problem which I am solving in a rather inelegant way.
> I am getting the sender's Email ID from Outlook in a form like:

> /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd

> if the email ID is - abcd@domain.com.

> We are using Active Directory Service and all that I am doing right now is
> taking
> out the email name and the domain by string manipulation and getting the
> email ID from
> the database against that. But I am looking for a more proper solution to
> this problem.

> Thanks.
> Aninda

 

[anindasen_0609]

Hi Ken,

Thank you very much for your reply with valuable suggestions.

I am very sorry that I missed out on the version of Outlook which sue

asked specifically. Actually I want my code to work in both Outlook 2003

as well as 2007 versions.

Right now it is working only on version Outlook 2007

and not on Outlook 2003 I don't know why. It installs on Outlook 2003

correctly without any installation problem and shows in the plugin section of

outlook 2003 also but never works.

Regards,

Aninda
wrote:


> Sue's on vacation.

> I see a few flaws in your code.

> First of all, in an Outlook COM addin, never create a new
> Outlook.Application object. Always use the Application object passed to you
> in your startup code handler or in OnConnection.

> Second, that code will only look at contacts. If a recipient is from the GAL
> then you never will find anything.

> As Sue recommended it's really best to work with the Recipients collection
> and iterate that. You said that didn't work but didn't provide any
> information as to why. Each Recipient object has an Address property .
> That's what you should be using.

> When the Recipient is part of an Exchange domain you won't get back an SMTP
> style address, you'll get back an Exchange DN type address such as your
> example: /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd.

> In those cases you would need to convert the EX address into an SMTP
> equivalent. Since you never mention which version or versions of Outlook you
> are targeting it's hard to be specific as to how you would convert the
> address. Take a look at
> http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=4&messageid=13469 for some
> suggestions as to how to do that. Note that since you're using managed code
> (C#) the CDO option is not available to you, CDO is not supported and should
> not be used with managed code.

> You can also search at www.outlookcode.com using something like "convert
> exchange address to smtp" to look at other forum threads on that topic.

> >

>

> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message
> news:88E397B3-696F-41AE-B964-C6C4243AA2C6@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for your reply. I am sorry I could not reply earlier.
> > 1) I think I created a confusion. I actually meant all the email fields
> > ie., From, To, Cc and Bcc. Wherever there is a name for a particular email
> > address
> > in the local address book, I am getting the name instead of the email ID.
> > My function to get email ID against the name is as below:
> > private string GetEmailID(ref string recipientName)
> > {
> > string recipientEmailID = null;
> > string myQuery = null;
> > myQuery = "[FullName] = '" + recipientName + "'";
> > // Create the Outlook application.
> > Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
> > // Get the NameSpace information.
> > Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi");
> > // Get the default Contacts folder.
> > Outlook.MAPIFolder oContacts =
> > oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
> > // Get the Items collection from the folder.
> > Outlook.Items oItems = (Outlook.Items)oContacts.Items;
> > // Get the first contact item in the Items collection.
> > Outlook.ContactItem oCt =
> > (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.Find(myQuery);
> > if (oCt != null)
> > {
> > if (oCt.Email1Address.IndexOf("@") != -1)
> > recipientEmailID = oCt.Email1Address;
> > else
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > oCt = null;
> > oItems = null;
> > oContacts = null;
> > oNS = null;
> > oApp = null;
> > return recipientEmailID;
> > }
> > and I am calling it only when
> > if (emailAddress.IndexOf("@") <= 0)
> > {
> > emailAddress = GetEmailID(ref emailAddress);
> > }
> > 2) I will definitely look at the resources that you have kindly shared and
> > try
> > NewMailEx.
> > 3) There is one more problem which I am solving in a rather inelegant way.
> > I am getting the sender's Email ID from Outlook in a form like:
> > /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd
> > if the email ID is - abcd@domain.com.
> > We are using Active Directory Service and all that I am doing right now is
> > taking
> > out the email name and the domain by string manipulation and getting the
> > email ID from
> > the database against that. But I am looking for a more proper solution to
> > this problem.
> > Thanks.
> > Aninda

>

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Did you compile the code with a reference to the Outlook/Office 2003 PIA's?

If you did it with references to the Outlook/Office 2007 PIA's it would

never work with Outlook 2003. You always have to compile on the oldest

version of Outlook that you intend to support.

If that's not it you're going to have to do some detective work. You should

put strategically placed logging statements or MessageBox calls to show

where you are in the code, or even if your code is actually loading and

running.

If the code isn't running then you need to do some Fusion debugging, Fusion

is the managed code loader. See

http://blogs.msdn.com/vsod/archive/2008/04/22/Troubleshooting-com-add-in-load-failures.aspx

for information on how to do that.

"anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message

news:FA135F96-390A-446B-BB73-6765AAD899E5@microsoft.com...
> Hi Ken,

> Thank you very much for your reply with valuable suggestions.

> I am very sorry that I missed out on the version of Outlook which sue
> asked specifically. Actually I want my code to work in both Outlook 2003
> as well as 2007 versions.

> Right now it is working only on version Outlook 2007
> and not on Outlook 2003 I don't know why. It installs on Outlook 2003
> correctly without any installation problem and shows in the plugin section
> of
> outlook 2003 also but never works.

> Regards,
> Aninda

 

[anindasen_0609]

Thanks Ken and Sue for your help. I now understand propertyaccessor method

and property tags much better because of your help.

I found out a few things which might come to help for people.

In Outlook 2007 - the property tags

which can be accessed with PropertyAccessor method of address entry for

Display Name ("John Doe") = 0x3001001E

EX Address ("/O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=John") =

0x803C001E

SMTP Address ("John@DOMAIN.com") = 0x39FE001E

AddressType ("EX" or "SMTP") = 0x3002001E

Regards,

Aninda
wrote:


> Sue's on vacation.

> I see a few flaws in your code.

> First of all, in an Outlook COM addin, never create a new
> Outlook.Application object. Always use the Application object passed to you
> in your startup code handler or in OnConnection.

> Second, that code will only look at contacts. If a recipient is from the GAL
> then you never will find anything.

> As Sue recommended it's really best to work with the Recipients collection
> and iterate that. You said that didn't work but didn't provide any
> information as to why. Each Recipient object has an Address property .
> That's what you should be using.

> When the Recipient is part of an Exchange domain you won't get back an SMTP
> style address, you'll get back an Exchange DN type address such as your
> example: /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd.

> In those cases you would need to convert the EX address into an SMTP
> equivalent. Since you never mention which version or versions of Outlook you
> are targeting it's hard to be specific as to how you would convert the
> address. Take a look at
> http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=4&messageid=13469 for some
> suggestions as to how to do that. Note that since you're using managed code
> (C#) the CDO option is not available to you, CDO is not supported and should
> not be used with managed code.

> You can also search at www.outlookcode.com using something like "convert
> exchange address to smtp" to look at other forum threads on that topic.

> >

>

> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message
> news:88E397B3-696F-41AE-B964-C6C4243AA2C6@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for your reply. I am sorry I could not reply earlier.
> > 1) I think I created a confusion. I actually meant all the email fields
> > ie., From, To, Cc and Bcc. Wherever there is a name for a particular email
> > address
> > in the local address book, I am getting the name instead of the email ID.
> > My function to get email ID against the name is as below:
> > private string GetEmailID(ref string recipientName)
> > {
> > string recipientEmailID = null;
> > string myQuery = null;
> > myQuery = "[FullName] = '" + recipientName + "'";
> > // Create the Outlook application.
> > Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
> > // Get the NameSpace information.
> > Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi");
> > // Get the default Contacts folder.
> > Outlook.MAPIFolder oContacts =
> > oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
> > // Get the Items collection from the folder.
> > Outlook.Items oItems = (Outlook.Items)oContacts.Items;
> > // Get the first contact item in the Items collection.
> > Outlook.ContactItem oCt =
> > (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.Find(myQuery);
> > if (oCt != null)
> > {
> > if (oCt.Email1Address.IndexOf("@") != -1)
> > recipientEmailID = oCt.Email1Address;
> > else
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > oCt = null;
> > oItems = null;
> > oContacts = null;
> > oNS = null;
> > oApp = null;
> > return recipientEmailID;
> > }
> > and I am calling it only when
> > if (emailAddress.IndexOf("@") <= 0)
> > {
> > emailAddress = GetEmailID(ref emailAddress);
> > }
> > 2) I will definitely look at the resources that you have kindly shared and
> > try
> > NewMailEx.
> > 3) There is one more problem which I am solving in a rather inelegant way.
> > I am getting the sender's Email ID from Outlook in a form like:
> > /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd
> > if the email ID is - abcd@domain.com.
> > We are using Active Directory Service and all that I am doing right now is
> > taking
> > out the email name and the domain by string manipulation and getting the
> > email ID from
> > the database against that. But I am looking for a more proper solution to
> > this problem.
> > Thanks.
> > Aninda

>

 

[anindasen_0609]

Hi Ken,

This is about the issue - "Name being returned by the mail object instead of

the Email ID" as I posted earlier.

I iterated through the Global Address List (GAL) as you suggested and

everything is ok as far as getting the email IDs in the GAL is concerned. But

the problem is something else.

There is a particular name that is being returned (Christopher Gillespie)

instead of the email ID which does not exist in any of the address books on

the server side. I think it is kept locally. You must have seen that when you

type an email ID which is not there in outlook, outlook saves it and prompts

it the next time you try to type it. If you double click on it, it pops up a

small form which has the title of "E-mail Properties" and in there you have

the fields "Display Name", "E-mail address", "E-mail type" with a button

called "Custom type" and another field called "Internet format".

I think that is where the display name can be changed and stored. I do not

know where Outlook is storing those email IDs. The guy who is facing the

problem must have changed the email ID of the contact Email ID to a name

("Christopher Gillespie" in this case) and that is what is being returned.

Does it make any sense? I hope it does. Where is outlook saving those

addresses and how can I catch hold of them? Please help.

Regards,

Aninda
wrote:


> Sue's on vacation.

> I see a few flaws in your code.

> First of all, in an Outlook COM addin, never create a new
> Outlook.Application object. Always use the Application object passed to you
> in your startup code handler or in OnConnection.

> Second, that code will only look at contacts. If a recipient is from the GAL
> then you never will find anything.

> As Sue recommended it's really best to work with the Recipients collection
> and iterate that. You said that didn't work but didn't provide any
> information as to why. Each Recipient object has an Address property .
> That's what you should be using.

> When the Recipient is part of an Exchange domain you won't get back an SMTP
> style address, you'll get back an Exchange DN type address such as your
> example: /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd.

> In those cases you would need to convert the EX address into an SMTP
> equivalent. Since you never mention which version or versions of Outlook you
> are targeting it's hard to be specific as to how you would convert the
> address. Take a look at
> http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=4&messageid=13469 for some
> suggestions as to how to do that. Note that since you're using managed code
> (C#) the CDO option is not available to you, CDO is not supported and should
> not be used with managed code.

> You can also search at www.outlookcode.com using something like "convert
> exchange address to smtp" to look at other forum threads on that topic.

> >

>

> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message
> news:88E397B3-696F-41AE-B964-C6C4243AA2C6@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for your reply. I am sorry I could not reply earlier.
> > 1) I think I created a confusion. I actually meant all the email fields
> > ie., From, To, Cc and Bcc. Wherever there is a name for a particular email
> > address
> > in the local address book, I am getting the name instead of the email ID.
> > My function to get email ID against the name is as below:
> > private string GetEmailID(ref string recipientName)
> > {
> > string recipientEmailID = null;
> > string myQuery = null;
> > myQuery = "[FullName] = '" + recipientName + "'";
> > // Create the Outlook application.
> > Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
> > // Get the NameSpace information.
> > Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi");
> > // Get the default Contacts folder.
> > Outlook.MAPIFolder oContacts =
> > oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
> > // Get the Items collection from the folder.
> > Outlook.Items oItems = (Outlook.Items)oContacts.Items;
> > // Get the first contact item in the Items collection.
> > Outlook.ContactItem oCt =
> > (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.Find(myQuery);
> > if (oCt != null)
> > {
> > if (oCt.Email1Address.IndexOf("@") != -1)
> > recipientEmailID = oCt.Email1Address;
> > else
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > oCt = null;
> > oItems = null;
> > oContacts = null;
> > oNS = null;
> > oApp = null;
> > return recipientEmailID;
> > }
> > and I am calling it only when
> > if (emailAddress.IndexOf("@") <= 0)
> > {
> > emailAddress = GetEmailID(ref emailAddress);
> > }
> > 2) I will definitely look at the resources that you have kindly shared and
> > try
> > NewMailEx.
> > 3) There is one more problem which I am solving in a rather inelegant way.
> > I am getting the sender's Email ID from Outlook in a form like:
> > /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd
> > if the email ID is - abcd@domain.com.
> > We are using Active Directory Service and all that I am doing right now is
> > taking
> > out the email name and the domain by string manipulation and getting the
> > email ID from
> > the database against that. But I am looking for a more proper solution to
> > this problem.
> > Thanks.
> > Aninda

>

 

[anindasen_0609]

In continuation with my last post on "Name being returned instead of email

ID" just like to mention that when someone is sending an email who is not in

my address book it is showing in the format of "Christopher Gillespie

[cgillespie@whatever.com]" and when I am hitting on reply to that email, it

is showing "Christopher Gillespie <cgillespie@whatever.com>" in the "To:"

field and if I double click on that email ID it is showing "Christopher

Gillespie" in the display name. I think that is what is being returned when I

am picking up the "To:" address from the sent email object instead of the

email ID.

Regards,

Aninda
wrote:


> Sue's on vacation.

> I see a few flaws in your code.

> First of all, in an Outlook COM addin, never create a new
> Outlook.Application object. Always use the Application object passed to you
> in your startup code handler or in OnConnection.

> Second, that code will only look at contacts. If a recipient is from the GAL
> then you never will find anything.

> As Sue recommended it's really best to work with the Recipients collection
> and iterate that. You said that didn't work but didn't provide any
> information as to why. Each Recipient object has an Address property .
> That's what you should be using.

> When the Recipient is part of an Exchange domain you won't get back an SMTP
> style address, you'll get back an Exchange DN type address such as your
> example: /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd.

> In those cases you would need to convert the EX address into an SMTP
> equivalent. Since you never mention which version or versions of Outlook you
> are targeting it's hard to be specific as to how you would convert the
> address. Take a look at
> http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=4&messageid=13469 for some
> suggestions as to how to do that. Note that since you're using managed code
> (C#) the CDO option is not available to you, CDO is not supported and should
> not be used with managed code.

> You can also search at www.outlookcode.com using something like "convert
> exchange address to smtp" to look at other forum threads on that topic.

> >

>

> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message
> news:88E397B3-696F-41AE-B964-C6C4243AA2C6@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for your reply. I am sorry I could not reply earlier.
> > 1) I think I created a confusion. I actually meant all the email fields
> > ie., From, To, Cc and Bcc. Wherever there is a name for a particular email
> > address
> > in the local address book, I am getting the name instead of the email ID.
> > My function to get email ID against the name is as below:
> > private string GetEmailID(ref string recipientName)
> > {
> > string recipientEmailID = null;
> > string myQuery = null;
> > myQuery = "[FullName] = '" + recipientName + "'";
> > // Create the Outlook application.
> > Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application();
> > // Get the NameSpace information.
> > Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi");
> > // Get the default Contacts folder.
> > Outlook.MAPIFolder oContacts =
> > oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts);
> > // Get the Items collection from the folder.
> > Outlook.Items oItems = (Outlook.Items)oContacts.Items;
> > // Get the first contact item in the Items collection.
> > Outlook.ContactItem oCt =
> > (Outlook.ContactItem)oItems.Find(myQuery);
> > if (oCt != null)
> > {
> > if (oCt.Email1Address.IndexOf("@") != -1)
> > recipientEmailID = oCt.Email1Address;
> > else
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > recipientEmailID = recipientName;
> > }
> > oCt = null;
> > oItems = null;
> > oContacts = null;
> > oNS = null;
> > oApp = null;
> > return recipientEmailID;
> > }
> > and I am calling it only when
> > if (emailAddress.IndexOf("@") <= 0)
> > {
> > emailAddress = GetEmailID(ref emailAddress);
> > }
> > 2) I will definitely look at the resources that you have kindly shared and
> > try
> > NewMailEx.
> > 3) There is one more problem which I am solving in a rather inelegant way.
> > I am getting the sender's Email ID from Outlook in a form like:
> > /O=DOMAIN/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP/CN=RE/ou=abcd
> > if the email ID is - abcd@domain.com.
> > We are using Active Directory Service and all that I am doing right now is
> > taking
> > out the email name and the domain by string manipulation and getting the
> > email ID from
> > the database against that. But I am looking for a more proper solution to
> > this problem.
> > Thanks.
> > Aninda

>

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The To, Cc and Bcc fields can have actual email addresses in them or

"friendly names" such as "John Foobar" or a combination of both. There's no

way to tell, it's just a text field. You can avoid all those problems if you

use the Recipients collection, as both Sue and I have suggested, and use the

Address field of each Recipient object. You will get only an email address

that way, whether or not it's an EX DN or an SMTP type address.

Using the fields you are insisting on using will get you nowhere fast.

"anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message

news:CEC2FE46-1691-48FD-AA89-FD953BC52169@microsoft.com...
> In continuation with my last post on "Name being returned instead of email
> ID" just like to mention that when someone is sending an email who is not
> in
> my address book it is showing in the format of "Christopher Gillespie
> [cgillespie@whatever.com]" and when I am hitting on reply to that email,
> it
> is showing "Christopher Gillespie <cgillespie@whatever.com>" in the "To:"
> field and if I double click on that email ID it is showing "Christopher
> Gillespie" in the display name. I think that is what is being returned
> when I
> am picking up the "To:" address from the sent email object instead of the
> email ID.

> Regards,
> Aninda

 

[anindasen_0609]

Thanks Ken. Problem solved.

Regards,

Aninda
wrote:


> The To, Cc and Bcc fields can have actual email addresses in them or
> "friendly names" such as "John Foobar" or a combination of both. There's no
> way to tell, it's just a text field. You can avoid all those problems if you
> use the Recipients collection, as both Sue and I have suggested, and use the
> Address field of each Recipient object. You will get only an email address
> that way, whether or not it's an EX DN or an SMTP type address.

> Using the fields you are insisting on using will get you nowhere fast.

> >

>

> "anindasen_0609" <anindasen0609> wrote in message
> news:CEC2FE46-1691-48FD-AA89-FD953BC52169@microsoft.com...
> > In continuation with my last post on "Name being returned instead of email
> > ID" just like to mention that when someone is sending an email who is not
> > in
> > my address book it is showing in the format of "Christopher Gillespie
> > [cgillespie@whatever.com]" and when I am hitting on reply to that email,
> > it
> > is showing "Christopher Gillespie <cgillespie@whatever.com>" in the "To:"
> > field and if I double click on that email ID it is showing "Christopher
> > Gillespie" in the display name. I think that is what is being returned
> > when I
> > am picking up the "To:" address from the sent email object instead of the
> > email ID.
> > Regards,
> > Aninda

>