I'm writing an Outlook Addin Ribbon in VB.net and getting on with it rather well, however I've come to a point where I'm stuck.
When sending an item, I also need to save the file in the reading format which it would appear in the 'Sent Items'.
If have tried mailItem.SaveAs("path", olSaveAsType) but it only saves as a draft item. Whereby you can edit the text.
I tried to loop through the sent items in the 'sent items' folder after sending, however Outlook hangs whilst my code is executing, thus holding up the actual sending of the email.
Is there a way this can be done?
Any help, hints or tips would be appreciated!
Message submission is an asynchronous process. Set up the Items.ItemAdd event handler on the Sent Items folder (Namespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail)) and process the sent message in the ItemAdd event handler.
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In outlook, I want all the people sending me emails with the object as "testintro" let's say, to be replied with their OWN email. I want them to receive exactly what they sent me. Is it possible to create that rule?
Yes, it is possible. But not with a rule. Instead, you can develop a VBA macro.
You can create a VBA macro where you could handle the NewMailEx event of the Application class. The NewMailEx event fires when a new message arrives in the Inbox and before client rule processing occurs. Use the Entry ID returned in the EntryIDCollection array to call the NameSpace.GetItemFromID method and process the item. This event fires once for every received item that is processed by Microsoft Outlook. The item can be one of several different item types, for example, MailItem, MeetingItem, or SharingItem.
So, you may get an instance of the arrived mail item and call the Reply method to reply instantly. The method creates a reply, pre-addressed to the original sender, from the original message. You may find the following articles helpful:
How To: Create and send an Outlook message programmatically
How To: Fill TO,CC and BCC fields in Outlook programmatically
How To: Change an Outlook e-mail message before sending using C# or VB.NET
is there any chance to make the following scenario working
user gets email in Outlook containing link/text/object
clicking the object runs simple VBA code (i.e. replace string in txt) file on users computer
Thank you.
No, it is not possible. This is a potential path for malware.
Instead, you can handle the NewMailEx event of the Application class in Outlook VBA macros where can detect such mails (with a specific text or links) and run your business logic accordingly.
The NewMailEx event fires once for every received item that is processed by Microsoft Outlook. The item can be one of several different item types, for example, MailItem, MeetingItem, or SharingItem. The NewMailEx event fires when a new message arrives in the Inbox and before client rule processing occurs. You can use the Entry ID returned in the EntryIDCollection array to call the NameSpace.GetItemFromID method and process the item.
Okay, looks like someone has encountered this problem before, but I didn't see any further comments or solutions. See the Edit in the accepted answer to this question.
My situation is like this.
I am running Outlook 2013 under Win10 x64 with an Exchange email account. I sometimes run Outlook for several days to a week or more at a time without closing it.
I want to raise an event when a new item is added to the Sent Mail folder. This needs to occur after the Application ItemSend event because, let's say, I want to delete the message after it is sent, which you cannot do from within the ItemSend event handler.
So I have the following code:
Public WithEvents goSent As Outlook.Items
Private Sub Application_Startup()
'Establish the global object for the folder we want to monitor.
Set goSent = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail).Items
End Sub
Private Sub goSent_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
'Do stuff here.
End Sub
Everything works beautifully for a day or longer, but eventually the ItemAdd event handler stops firing. If I enter the VBA editor and manually run Application_Startup, then it starts working again.
[Edit:] One other bit of information: The "built-in" events, like Application ItemSend, always seem to fire reliably no matter how long Outlook has been running.
[Edit 2:] This time, I let things go for a day after the event stopped firing. I opened the VBA editor and put a breakpoint in the Application ItemSend procedure. When it stopped, I queried the goSent object and found that (a) it still existed (rather than being Nothing), but (b) it had only the items in it that were there yesterday, presumably at the time it became "untethered" from the Sent Mail items collection. When I submitted a new Set statement in the Immediate window, it immediately began to work again.
[Edit 3:] I noticed that the MSDN documentation says to put event handlers for custom objects--like my ItemAdd event--in class modules. I have mine in ThisOutlookSession, but it was my understanding that ThisOutlookSession is a class module. Is there a problem with that?
Any idea why this would happen and what to do about it? I considered adding an event handler for Application ItemSend and just reassigning the goSent object every time that's fired, but it doesn't address the underlying problem.
[Edit 4:] For a while now, I've had a Set statement in the Application ItemSend handler, and that seems to have mostly taken care of things, even though it's a workaround, not really a solution. It appears to fail when I have delayed delivery on a sent item for an extended time, and I don't send any further messages in the meantime. Then the goSent object disconnects from the Sent Mail collection, and the message is actually sent from the Outbox after that point and before Application ItemSend fires again.
Thanks!
[Edit 5:] Unrelated to original issue: I discovered that my macros fail to accomplish what I want with an Exchange server that is in online mode (i.e., not cached mode) if I have messages in the Outbox with delayed delivery and Outlook is closed when the delivery time passes. In online mode, Exchange itself sends these messages and adds them to the Sent Mail folder on the server, so when Outlook reopens, the messages are already in the Sent Mail collection and no event fires. Which makes sense. See discussion here. Looks like I would need to add something to my Application_Startup macro to look for messages sent since Outlook last closed.
I had similar issue and never found a proper solution. What I did was I wrote a little batch script that closes and opens outlook app, then I set a task in task scheduler to run it every hour outside of my working hours. You can also do it easily in vbs.
I got an issue with the macro I did in Outlook. To resume, the macro starts every time I receive an email. Then it will run a few others Sub, modify an Excel file and so one. When Outlook is running and I receive a new email, everything works perfectly. The problem occurs when I open Outlook and I receive more than one email at the same time.
I suppose the macro doesn't have enough time to end what it's doing with the first email and already try to start again with the next one.
Is there a way to keep the next emails in suspend in order to run the macro for each email, each one has its turn ? Or maybe you have another solution ?
Thank you.
PS: I can provide the code but it's very long.
The problem occurs when I open Outlook and I receive more than one email at the same time.
The NewMailEx event of the Application class is fired once for every received item that is processed by Microsoft Outlook. The item can be one of several different item types, for example, MailItem, MeetingItem, or SharingItem. The EntryIDsCollection string contains the Entry ID that corresponds to that item.
The NewMailEx event fires when a new message arrives in the Inbox and before client rule processing occurs. You can use the Entry ID returned in the EntryIDCollection array to call the NameSpace.GetItemFromID method and process the item.
Make sure VBA macros are enabled and allowed to run when Outlook is started. Check out the Trust Center settings in Outlook.
I wonder if there is any way to avoid deleting attachments in outlook mailItem using code
either with right clicking and select remove or delete by pressing delete key.
I didn't find any solution like [beforeAttachment] event for it.
Removing attachments is only committed if the MailItem is then saved. Therefore one thing you could do is add an event handler for the AttachmentRemove event, and set a flag if the event fires. Armed with the knowledge that an attachment has been removed, you could then deny attempts to save the MailItem, by cancelling the Write event or by whatever means works best with your code.