OL2000: ReplyRecipients Property Is Read/Write, Not Read-only

• Microsoft Outlook 2000

SUMMARY

The Outlook Visual Basic Reference (Vbaoutl9.chm) 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 9.0 Object Library."



• 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 additional information about available resources and answers to commonly asked questions about Microsoft Outlook 2000 solutions, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q146636 OL2000: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions

Additional query words: OutSol OutSol2000 vbscript

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug