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Reputation: 127

Outlook : How to get email from Recipient field?

I'm attempting to get the email address typed into the To field of a compose mail window.

I try to get the Address property of a Recipient, which according to VS, should give me the email.

I am instead receiving a string that looks like this:

"/c=US/a=att/p=Microsoft/o=Finance/ou=Purchasing/s=Furthur/g=Joe"

How can I get the email address in the recipient field?

My code so far:

List <string> emails = new List<string>();

if (thisMailItem.Recipients.Count > 0)
{
    foreach (Recipient rec in thisMailItem.Recipients)
    {
        emails.Add(rec.Address);
    }
}
return emails;

Upvotes: 8

Views: 9649

Answers (4)

Akanksha Gaur
Akanksha Gaur

Reputation: 2676

Try this

private string GetSMTPAddressForRecipients(Recipient recip)
        {
            const string PR_SMTP_ADDRESS =
                "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x39FE001E";

            PropertyAccessor pa = recip.PropertyAccessor;
            string smtpAddress = pa.GetProperty(PR_SMTP_ADDRESS).ToString();
            return smtpAddress;

        }

This is available on MSDN here

I have used the same way to get email addresses in my application and its working.

Upvotes: 5

jahan
jahan

Reputation: 11

I don't know if this helps or how accurate 

it is, a sample

    private string GetSmtp(Outlook.MailItem item)
        {
            try
            {
                if (item == null || item.Recipients == null || item.Recipients[1] == null) return "";
                var outlook = new Outlook.Application();
                var session = outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI");
                session.Logon("", "", false, false);
                var entryId = item.Recipients[1].EntryID;
                string address = session.GetAddressEntryFromID(entryId).GetExchangeUser().PrimarySmtpAddress;
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(address))
                {
                    var rec = item.Recipients[1];
                    var contact = rec.AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser();
                    if (contact != null)
                        address = contact.PrimarySmtpAddress;
                }
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(address))
                {
                    var rec = item.Recipients[1];
                    var contact = rec.AddressEntry.GetContact();
                    if (contact != null)
                        address = contact.Email1Address;
                }
                return address;
            }
            finally
            {

            }
        }

Upvotes: 1

Noam Gal
Noam Gal

Reputation: 3405

the AddressEntry also has an SMTPAddress property that exposes the primary smtp adress of the user.

Upvotes: 2

Bala R
Bala R

Reputation: 108937

Can you try this ?

emails.Add(rec.AddressEntry.Address);

Reference link

EDIT:

I don't have the right environment to test so I'm just guessing all this, but how about

string email1Address = rec.AddressEntry.GetContact().Email1Address;

or .Email2Adress or .Email3Address

Also there is, 

rec.AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser().Address

that you might want to try.

Upvotes: 5

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