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Skinner
Skinner

Reputation: 1503

Retrieving email address from a globalAddressList in outlook

Based on the description for the AddressEntry.Address Property, I expect the following to "return a String (string in C#) representing the e-mail address of the AddressEntry."

  Outlook.AddressList gal = Application.Session.GetGlobalAddressList();
  Outlook.AddressEntries ae = gal.AddressEntries;
  List<string> email = new List<string>();

  foreach (Outlook.AddressEntry e in ae)
  {
      email.Add(e.Address);
  }

Rather, the email list fills up with strings that look like...

"/o=companyName/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=firstname.lastname"

I would prefer it return something like....

[email protected]

How am I using this incorrectly?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 522

Answers (1)

Dmitry Streblechenko
Dmitry Streblechenko

Reputation: 66286

If AddressEntry.Type == "EX", use AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser().PrimarySmtpAddress. Be prepared to handle nulls and exceptions.

Upvotes: 2

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