Programmatically redirecting email. Outlook 2003 Add-in, C# AndersL 2/23/2007 8:03:08 AM I am creating an Outlook 2003 add-in using C# and VSTO second edition. I have created a CommandBarButton, and want to redirect an email to a given email address when the button is clicked. It is of importance that the original subject, content and sender/recievers are kept. I have the button click event up and running, and I have also extracted the selected MailItem. 1) Is there framework support in the Outlook OM for redirecting a MailItem to a given email account, given my criterias above? If there is no direct support for this, does anyone know a workaround? Code examples are much appreciated. 2) When the mail message is redirected, I would like to mark the original message somehow, so the user easily can see that the button has been clicked. I was thinking to set a custom flag, but that could interfere routines for the users that use the normal flagging functionality. Any ideas on how to solve this? Code examples? 3) I also need to prevent that the same email is redirected again by deactivating the button. I picture that the event handler checks the "redirected" flag of the message. Does anyone know what event to handle to catch a change in selection? Thanks in advance! Regards, Anders

Re: Programmatically redirecting email. Outlook 2003 Add-in, C# "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak[ at ]mvps.org> 2/23/2007 3:22:13 PM I'm not quite sure what you mean by redirect in this case. If you want to send a copy of the message to some email address just take the copy and clear the Recipients collection and add your own Recipient object, resolve it and send it. You can add a UserProperty to the UserProperties collection of any item. That could be a Boolean in this case that is set true when your redirection is done. A code sample for using item.Recipients.Add is in the Object Browser Help, as is a sample for using UserProperties.Add. When an item is opened it's opened in an Inspector. You can handle the NewInspector event of the Inspectors collection and use that to set up your button initialization. Actually, the button creation should be in the first Activate event of that Inspector, before that the CommandBars collection and other attributes of the Inspector and Inspector.CurrentItem may not be valid. In the code where you create your button just check for the UserProperty you created and if it's true set your button properties to .Enabled = false if you want it there but grayed out, or .Visible = false if you don't want it shown at all. There are a number of VSTO samples and C# samples at www.outlookcode.com. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm "AndersL" <AndersL[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:73E04FA2-0D3C-480A-B66B-BFA6572701BE[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am creating an Outlook 2003 add-in using C# and VSTO second edition. I >have > created a CommandBarButton, and want to redirect an email to a given email > address when the button is clicked. It is of importance that the original > subject, content and sender/recievers are kept. > > I have the button click event up and running, and I have also extracted > the > selected MailItem. > > 1) Is there framework support in the Outlook OM for redirecting a MailItem > to a given email account, given my criterias above? If there is no direct > support for this, does anyone know a workaround? Code examples are much > appreciated. > > 2) When the mail message is redirected, I would like to mark the original > message somehow, so the user easily can see that the button has been > clicked. > I was thinking to set a custom flag, but that could interfere routines for > the users that use the normal flagging functionality. Any ideas on how to > solve this? Code examples? > > 3) I also need to prevent that the same email is redirected again by > deactivating the button. I picture that the event handler checks the > "redirected" flag of the message. Does anyone know what event to handle to > catch a change in selection? > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Anders >

Re: Programmatically redirecting email. Outlook 2003 Add-in, C# AndersL 2/23/2007 4:33:38 PM Thank you for your response, Ken. By redirect, I mean that the email is "bounced" as it is to a given email address, without changing the sender, recipient, datestamp, subject or body. To exemplify: I recieve a message. The reciever is "me[ at ]domain.com", and the sender is "sender[ at ]domain.com". I want to bounce this email to a different account (e.g. "somewhereElse[ at ]domain.com"), and still keep the original receiver (me[ at ]domain.com) and sender (sender[ at ]domain.com). This will make the message appear as it never has been in my inbox. Any ideas on how to do this? Regarding the "flagging" of emails: I mean the selected message in the Explorer view, not the Inspector. So I guess my question is: What event is triggered when a user selects a new message for preview in the Explorer? I was thinking to activate/deactivate the button in that event handler. Regarding the UserProperties - I think that will solve the issue behind the scenes, but not visually. Do you have any ideas on how to somehow mark a message, without using the default flag functionality? I just want the user to easily notice (in the Explorer) whether the message has been redirected or not. Thanks again, Anders "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I'm not quite sure what you mean by redirect in this case. > > If you want to send a copy of the message to some email address just take > the copy and clear the Recipients collection and add your own Recipient > object, resolve it and send it. > > You can add a UserProperty to the UserProperties collection of any item. > That could be a Boolean in this case that is set true when your redirection > is done. > > A code sample for using item.Recipients.Add is in the Object Browser Help, > as is a sample for using UserProperties.Add. > > When an item is opened it's opened in an Inspector. You can handle the > NewInspector event of the Inspectors collection and use that to set up your > button initialization. Actually, the button creation should be in the first > Activate event of that Inspector, before that the CommandBars collection and > other attributes of the Inspector and Inspector.CurrentItem may not be > valid. > > In the code where you create your button just check for the UserProperty you > created and if it's true set your button properties to .Enabled = false if > you want it there but grayed out, or .Visible = false if you don't want it > shown at all. > > There are a number of VSTO samples and C# samples at www.outlookcode.com. > > -- > Ken Slovak > [MVP - Outlook] > http://www.slovaktech.com > Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 > Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options > http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm > > > "AndersL" <AndersL[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:73E04FA2-0D3C-480A-B66B-BFA6572701BE[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I am creating an Outlook 2003 add-in using C# and VSTO second edition. I > >have > > created a CommandBarButton, and want to redirect an email to a given email > > address when the button is clicked. It is of importance that the original > > subject, content and sender/recievers are kept. > > > > I have the button click event up and running, and I have also extracted > > the > > selected MailItem. > > > > 1) Is there framework support in the Outlook OM for redirecting a MailItem > > to a given email account, given my criterias above? If there is no direct > > support for this, does anyone know a workaround? Code examples are much > > appreciated. > > > > 2) When the mail message is redirected, I would like to mark the original > > message somehow, so the user easily can see that the button has been > > clicked. > > I was thinking to set a custom flag, but that could interfere routines for > > the users that use the normal flagging functionality. Any ideas on how to > > solve this? Code examples? > > > > 3) I also need to prevent that the same email is redirected again by > > deactivating the button. I picture that the event handler checks the > > "redirected" flag of the message. Does anyone know what event to handle to > > catch a change in selection? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Regards, > > Anders > > > >

Re: Programmatically redirecting email. Outlook 2003 Add-in, C# "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" <kenslovak[ at ]mvps.org> 2/26/2007 4:35:16 PM In that case if you aren't really sending an item but want to move it somewhere I'd use the item.Move method. Before the move you can set a flag on the item or mark it in some other way such as a category. If you forward or send an item it will definitely have new properties for sender and recipients and receive time, any Internet headers will be gone if this is an internal email and other things will change too. You might want to look at www.ivasoft.com, as I recall Victor has some Extended MAPI code there as an addin or sink of some sort that does redirections, if it does what you want that's a lot better than reinventing the wheel. -- Ken Slovak [MVP - Outlook] http://www.slovaktech.com Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm "AndersL" <AndersL[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C7519745-2D46-4CAC-BB49-878F677D40F0[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Thank you for your response, Ken. > > By redirect, I mean that the email is "bounced" as it is to a given email > address, without changing the sender, recipient, datestamp, subject or > body. > > To exemplify: I recieve a message. The reciever is "me[ at ]domain.com", and > the > sender is "sender[ at ]domain.com". I want to bounce this email to a different > account (e.g. "somewhereElse[ at ]domain.com"), and still keep the original > receiver (me[ at ]domain.com) and sender (sender[ at ]domain.com). This will make > the > message appear as it never has been in my inbox. > > Any ideas on how to do this? > > Regarding the "flagging" of emails: I mean the selected message in the > Explorer view, not the Inspector. So I guess my question is: What event is > triggered when a user selects a new message for preview in the Explorer? I > was thinking to activate/deactivate the button in that event handler. > > Regarding the UserProperties - I think that will solve the issue behind > the > scenes, but not visually. Do you have any ideas on how to somehow mark a > message, without using the default flag functionality? I just want the > user > to easily notice (in the Explorer) whether the message has been redirected > or > not. > > Thanks again, > > Anders