vba outlook - reply from a file from a folder - vba

Question

I dragged an outlook msg to a specific folder named "email temp folder" and would like to reply on that msg automatically.
The title name of the msg which I saved in "email temp folder" could be anything. It is not possible for me to get the file's title name. So I try to loop through the file in "email temp folder" and Set FileItemToUse = objFile
However, there is an error: object doesn't support this property or method on this line. .ReplyAll
How am I able to turn FileItemToUse into an outlook item?
Sub outlookActivate1()
Dim OutApp As Outlook.Application
Dim OutMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim fso As New FileSystemObject
Dim objFolder As Object
Dim objFile As Object
Dim FileItemToUse As Object
Dim i As Long
Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
strPath = "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\email temp folder" & "\"
strFiles = Dir(strPath & "*.*")
Set objFolder = fso.GetFolder(strPath)
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
If i = 0 Then
Set FileItemToUse = objFile
End If
Next objFile
With FileItemToUse
.ReplyAll
.BCC = ""
.Subject = "Hi"
.HTMLBody = "testing"
.BodyFormat = olFormatHTML
.display
End With
Set OutMail = Nothing
Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 1

Your code should look similar to the following:
Sub ReplyToFilesInFolder(SourceFolderName As String)
Dim FSO As Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim SourceFolder As Scripting.Folder
Dim FileItem As Scripting.File
Dim strFile
Dim strFileType
Dim openMsg As MailItem
Dim strFolderpath As String
Set FSO = New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Set SourceFolder = FSO.GetFolder(SourceFolderName)
For Each FileItem In SourceFolder.Files
strFile = FileItem.name
' This code looks at the last 4 characters in a filename
' If we wanted more than .msg, we'd use Case Select statement
strFileType = LCase$(Right$(strFile, 4))
If strFileType = ".msg" Then
Debug.Print FileItem.Path
Set openMsg = Application.CreateItemFromTemplate(FileItem.Path)
' do whatever is needed to reply
openMsg.Close olDiscard
Set openMsg = Nothing
' end do whatever
End If
Next FileItem
Set FileItem = Nothing
Set SourceFolder = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing
End Sub
This (untested) snipped was inspired by this article. Microsoft Scripting Runtime has to be included as project reference.

Answer 2

So I try to loop through the file in "email temp folder" and Set FileItemToUse = objFile
It is not possible to get the job done that way.
When you drag a message file (.msg) file to a specific folder the ItemAdd event is fired. So, you need to handle the event to get a MailItem object which corresponds a dropped file. Then you can use the Reply or ReplyAll methods.