Cannot retreive sender email from Outlook.MailItem

[DimkaNewtown]

I am writing an Outlook Add-In in C# that will (upon click of a button) take the selected message in the folder and save it to a database.

My problem is that I HAVE to have the sender email address. It would be even better if I could get the Reply-To address.

Unfortunately the Outlook.MailItem object does not expose those
properties and the SenderName property is no help at all.

Im stumped.

I have spent hours on this problem and I find it quite ridiculous.


Thanks!

-Dmitri

 

[herilane]

Bit of a cheat but here you go... This is Outlook VBA, i.e. not VB.Net-adjusted code, but it should get you started.

Dim itm As MailItem, r As MailItem
Set itm = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
Set r = itm.Reply
MsgBox r.Recipients.Item(1).Address

 

[DimkaNewtown]

Bit of a cheat but here you go... This is Outlook VBA, i.e. not VB.Net-adjusted code, but it should get you started.

Dim itm As MailItem, r As MailItem
Set itm = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
Set r = itm.Reply
MsgBox r.Recipients.Item(1).Address

So the recipients.Item(1).Address will always contain the email of the person where it came from? What if there are people on the CC list?