Query Outlook Global Address List From Access VBA - vba

Question

I am writing some Access VBA code to get a count of how many times a specific email address has been emailed. The issue that I am running into is that the first time the email is sent out, the email leaves our Exchange sever as
email1#domain.com
But once the person replies to that email, then all subsequent messages are displayed as
'lastname, firstname'
I use the below VBA code to search for the email1#domain.com example, but how can I use access vba to get the name from the global address list?
Function Test()
Dim searchEmail As String: searchEmail = "'abc123#abc123.com'"
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNs As NameSpace
Dim Fldr As MAPIFolder
Dim olReply As Outlook.MailItem
Dim msg As Object
Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
Set olNs = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Fldr = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail)
For Each msg In Fldr.Items
If TypeName(msg) = "MailItem" Then
If msg.To = searchEmail Then
'now we start counting
End If
End If
Next msg
End Function

Answer 1

Similar to the answer I posted here, instead of checking the To property of the MailItem object (which, per the linked documentation, contains the display names only), query the contents of the Recipients collection and, for each Recipient object, test the value held by the Address property against your searchEmail variable.
The Address property will consistently contain the email address of the recipient, never a display name.
That is, instead of:
For Each msg In Fldr.Items
If TypeName(msg) = "MailItem" Then
If msg.To = searchEmail Then
'now we start counting
End If
End If
Next msg
You might use something like:
For Each msg In Fldr.Items
If TypeName(msg) = "MailItem" Then
For Each rcp In msg.Recipients
If rcp.Address = searchEmail Then
'now we start counting
End If
Next rcp
End If
Next msg