the code below creates a recurring Outlook appointment and another Outlook appointment through Excel and VBA. i'm trying to send the appointment to a different inbox, but i keep getting the "Run-time Error 287: Application-defined or object-defined error" at the line "OutlookAppt.Recipients.Add ("XXXXXX#company-company.com")". the code works, except when i add this line, so i'm wondering why.
please let me know if you have any ideas as to how to fix this.
thank you a bunch in advance!
Sub CompleteReminders()
Dim rows
Dim sDate As Date, newFU As Date, newDate As Date, iDate As Date, generalDate As Date
Dim iValue As Integer
Dim iteration As Integer
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim i As Long
Dim x As Integer
Dim xRg As Range
Dim myNamespace As Object
Dim objfolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim OutlookAppt As Outlook.AppointmentItem
Dim OutlookAppt2 As Outlook.AppointmentItem
Dim myRecurrPatt As Outlook.RecurrencePattern
Const olFolderCalendar = 9
Const olAppointment = 26
Dim n As Integer
Set OutApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
If ErrL <> 0 Then
Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
End If
Set myNamespace = OutApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objfolder = myNamespace.PickFolder 'Sets folder where appt will be created
Set xRg = Range("B6:D6")
Set OutlookAppt = OutApp.CreateItem(1)
OutlookAppt.Duration = 5
Set myRecurrPatt = OutlookAppt.GetRecurrencePattern
With myRecurrPatt
.PatternStartDate = Range("C1").Value
.RecurrenceType = olRecursMonthNth
.Interval = Range("C3").Value
.PatternEndDate = dateEnd
.StartTime = #5:00:00 PM#
.EndTime = #5:05:00 PM#
End With
OutlookAppt.Subject = xRg.Cells(1, 1).Value
If xRg.Cells(1, 2).Value > 0 Then
OutlookAppt.ReminderSet = True
OutlookAppt.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = xRg.Cells(4, 6).Value
Else
OutlookAppt.ReminderSet = False
End If
OutlookAppt.Body = xRg.Cells(1, 3).Value
OutlookAppt.BusyStatus = olFree
OutlookAppt.Recipients.Add ("XXXXXX#company-company.com")
OutlookAppt.Save
Set OutlookAppt = objfolder.Items.Add(olAppointmentItem)
End Sub
If your code is running unattended, make sure the security prompt is not getting in the way. Make sure antivirus app and its definitions are up-to-date.
Also try to replace the problematic line line with
OutlookAppt.RequiredAttendees = "XXXXXX#company-company.com"
For the RequiredAttendees property, only reading is blocked, but not setting.
In some really quick testing, I was able to get the line to work by setting the object (recipients are objects):
Dim requiredRecipient as Outlook.Recipient
Set requiredRecipient = OutlookAppt.Recipients.Add ("XXXXXX#company-company.com")
requiredRecipient.Type = olRequired
Docs for reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/outlook.recipients
Get rid of () when calling Recipients.Add:
OutlookAppt.Recipients.Add "XXXXXX#company-company.com"
or change it to
set Recip = OutlookAppt.Recipients.Add ("XXXXXX#company-company.com")
() in VB are only used when calling a function, but not a sub.
Consider using the AppointmentItem.RequiredAttendees property instead. Also you may find the AppointmentItem.OptionalAttendees property helpful which returns or sets a string representing the display string of optional attendees names for the appointment. This is a semicolon-delimited string of required attendee names for the meeting appointment.
In case of using the Recipients property for meetings you need to use the OlMeetingRecipientType enumeration.
OutlookAppt.Recipients.Add "XXXXXX#company-company.com"
Related
I am trying to create a vba tool in excel that will step through items in my Outlook sent box to calculate the size of each item and the number of recipients.
I hit a problem when a recipient is actually a distribution list. My code counts the distribution list as one recipient whereas I need it to count the members in the list.
I have found code which looks as if it would count members, but only if the distribution list is in the Contacts Folder.
However, in my organisation, all of our distribution lists are kept in a separate Address List outside of the Contacts folder.
Is there a way that I can lookup the number of members based on the distribution List name using vba?
Thanks in advance.
Update:
Thanks for the responses. My first attempt used the "AnalyseSentItems" (below) sub to loop through items and recipients and then called the "CountofRecipients" function to try to calculate total recipients.
I get the "Object Variable or With block not set" error at "AddressEntry.Members.Count".
Sub AnalyseSentItems()
'The code will loop through items in Sent Items created within the past n number of days
'and calculate the total size of items sent by multiplying the size of each item by the number of recipients
Dim oLItem As Object
Dim oMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim RECP As Recipient, CntRecp As Integer, i As Integer
Dim DateSEnt As Date
Dim NoOfDays As Integer 'Number of days to look back on in Sent box
Dim olFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim objNS As Outlook.Namespace ': Set objNS = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Dim Emailcnt As Integer, TotSize As Long
Dim innerDistListFound As Boolean
TotSize = 0
Emailcnt = 0
Set objNS = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolder = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail)
NoOfDays = 2
For Each oLItem In olFolder.Items
CntRecp = 0
If oLItem.CreationTime > DateAdd("d", -2, Date) Then
'Calculate total number of recipients
For Each RECP In oLItem.Recipients
CntRecp = CntRecp + CountOfRecipients(RECP)
Next
Emailcnt = Emailcnt + CntRecp
TotSize = TotSize + oLItem.Size * oLItem.Recipients.Count
End If
Next oLItem
Debug.Print "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++" _
& vbCrLf & "Total Messages: " & Emailcnt & vbCrLf & "Total Size: " & TotSize _
& vbCrLf & "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
End Sub
Function CountOfRecipients(RECP As Recipient) As Integer
Select Case RECP.AddressEntry.DisplayType
Case Is = 5, 1 'Displaytype is Exchange or Private Dist List
CountOfRecipients = RECP.AddressEntry.Members.Count
Case Else
CountOfRecipients = 1
End Select
End Function
My second unsuccessful attempt used the "MemberCount" function below, passing in a Distribution List name.
This fails with "The Attempted Operation Failed. An object could not be found".
I presume this is because the Distribution List is not in OLFolderContacts. (It is visible in my "Global Address List").
Function MemberCount(DistListName As String) As Integer
Dim olApplication As Object
Dim olNamespace As Object
Dim olContactFolder As Object
Dim olDistListItem As Object
Const olFolderContacts As Long = 10
Set olApplication = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olNamespace = olApplication.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olContactFolder = olNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts)
Set olDistListItem = olContactFolder.Items(DistListName)
MemberCount = olDistListItem.MemberCount
Set olApplication = Nothing
Set olNamespace = Nothing
Set olContactFolder = Nothing
Set olDistListItem = Nothing
End Function
All guidance gratefully received.
When processing the recipients, check Recipient.AddressEntry.Members. If not null (meaning it is a DL), check the Members.Count property. You can also process each address entry in the Members collection recursively, in case of DLs containing other DLs.
Use the AddressEntry.DisplayType property which returns a constant belonging to the OlDisplayType enumeration that describes the nature of the AddressEntry. So, if you deal with a distribution list, you can try to access the AddressEntry.Members property. For example, here is the sample VBA code:
Option Explicit
Sub DLExpand()
Dim currItem As MailItem
Dim recips As Recipients
Dim innerDistListFound As Boolean
Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Set currItem = ActiveInspector.currentItem
innerDistListFound = True
Do Until innerDistListFound = False
Set recips = currItem.Recipients
innerDistListFound = False
If recips.count = 0 Then GoTo ExitRoutine
For j = recips.count To 1 Step -1
'Debug.Print recips(j)
If recips(j).AddressEntry.DisplayType <> olUser Then
' Expand the dist list
For i = 1 To recips(j).AddressEntry.Members.count
If recips(j).AddressEntry.Members.Item(i).DisplayType = olUser Then
currItem.Recipients.Add (recips(j).AddressEntry.Members.Item(i).Address)
Else
currItem.Recipients.Add (recips(j).AddressEntry.Members.Item(i).Name)
innerDistListFound = True
'Debug.Print " innerDistListFound: " & innerDistListFound
End If
Debug.Print "- " & recips(j).AddressEntry.Members.Item(i).Name
Next
recips(j).Delete
recips.ResolveAll
DoEvents
End If
Next j
recips.ResolveAll
Loop
ExitRoutine:
Set currItem = Nothing
Set recips = Nothing
'Debug.Print "Done."
End Sub
I am trying to insert a list of email addresses from Excel into a contact group in Outlook.
I found Excel VBA code online. It uses early binding. It is not an option to force the user to go into Tools-> References -> Outlook, when they open the file.
I need to transform the code from early to late binding.
Questions:
I understand that I need to change Outlook.Application to
CreateObject('Outlook.Application') and that I can access
olFolderContacts with the number 10 instead. See code below.
I can't figure out how to access the remaining items such as
CreateItem(olDistributionListItem).
Sub CreateContactGroupfromExcel()
Dim objContactsFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim objContact As Outlook.ContactItem
Dim objContactGroup As Outlook.DistListItem
Dim objNameCell As Excel.Range
Dim objEmailCell As Excel.Range
Dim strName As String
Dim strEmail As String
Dim objTempMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim objRecipients As Outlook.Recipients
Set objContactsFolder = Outlook.Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts)
Set objContactGroup = Outlook.Application.CreateItem(olDistributionListItem)
'You can change the contact group name
objContactGroup.DLName = "PlaceHolder_VBA"
i = 0
Do While Range("vba_email_outlook").Offset(i, 0).Value <> "":
strName = Range("vba_name_outlook").Offset(i, 0).Value
strEmail = Range("vba_email_outlook").Offset(i, 0).Value
Set objContact = objContactsFolder.Items.Find("[FullName] = '" & strName & "'")
'If there is no such a contact, create it.
If objContact Is Nothing Then
Set objContact = Outlook.Application.CreateItem(olContactItem)
With objContact
.FullName = strName
.Email1Address = strEmail
.Save
End With
End If
'Add the contacts to the new contact group
Set objTempMail = Outlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
objTempMail.Recipients.Add (strName)
Set objRecipients = objTempMail.Recipients
objContactGroup.AddMembers objRecipients
i = i + 1
Loop
'Use "objContactGroup.Save" to straightly save it
objContactGroup.Display
objTempMail.Close olDiscard
End Sub
Declare object variables as generic Object
Dim objContactsFolder As Object
Determine number values of constants. With early binding, these values can be seen when hovering over constant or in VBA immediate window: ?olMailItem. Then reference number in place of constant or leave constants referenced as they are and declare them as constants with Const statements. Const olMailItem = 0
olFolderContacts = 10
olMailItem = 0
olDistributionListItem = 7
I am not an expert but this code allows you to add the reference when you run the VBA script, but it will mean that if it errors out the code quits running you will not be able to debug.
On Error Resume Next ''' If reference already exist this would cause an error
Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.References.AddFromFile ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSOUTL.OLB") ''' Might have to change file path
On Error GoTo 0
I am trying to extract the email address from each individual undeliverables email body.
The email body would be like:
----------------------------Email----------------------------
Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:
XXXX#XXXXXX.XXX (XXXX#XXXXXX.XXX)
...no need info...
To: XXXX#XXXXXX.XXX
...no need info...
----------------------------Email-----------------------------
I came up with below code:
Sub Test()
Dim myFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim Item As Outlook.MailItem 'MailItem
Dim xlApp As Object 'Excel.Application
Dim xlWB As Object 'Excel.Workbook
Dim xlSheet As Object 'Excel.Worksheet
Dim Lines() As String
Dim i As Integer, x As Integer, P As Integer
Dim myItem As Variant
Dim subjectOfEmail As String
Dim bodyOfEmail As String
'Try access to excel
On Error Resume Next
Set xlApp = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
If xlApp Is Nothing Then
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Application.Visible = True
If xlApp Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Excel is not accessable"
Exit Sub
End If
End If
On Error GoTo 0
'Add a new workbook
Set xlWB = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
xlApp.Application.Visible = True
Set xlSheet = xlWB.ActiveSheet
Set myFolder = GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
For Each myItem In myFolder.Items
subjectOfEmail = myItem.Subject
bodyOfEmail = myItem.Body
'Search for Undeliverable email
If bodyOfEmail Like "*Delivery*" & "*failed*" And indexOfEmail Like "*Undeliverable*" Then
x = x + 1
'Extract email address from email body
Lines = Split(myItem.Body, vbCrLf)
For i = 0 To UBound(Lines)
P = InStr(1, Lines(i), "#", vbTextCompare)
Q = InStr(1, Lines(i), "(", vbTextCompare)
If P > 0 Then
xlApp.Range("A" & x) = Trim$(Mid$(Lines(i), 1, Q - 1)) 'extract the email address
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
Next
End Sub
It worked on my test Email Inbox, which opened an Excel sheet and listed every particular email address within the target emails.
When I ran this code on my work email account, it didn't give me a thing. I found that it had trouble reading "Undeliverables" emails, and every time after I ran it, one of the undeliverables emails turned into Traditional Chinese characters which cannot be read.
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I feel this code works on only forwarded undeliverable email, in my test email inbox.
It never read from the original undeliverable emails and turned those emails to Chinese characters one by one.
I googled it, it seems there are bugs in Outlook for the failed delivery emails. How to fix this?
After frustrated several days, I finally came up a much simpler solution, which doesn't need to worry about any restriction of NDR in Outlook or even never use VBA at all...
What I did is:
Select all the non-delivery emails in Outlook
Save as a ".txt" file
Open Excel, open the txt file and select "Delimited" and select "Tab" as delimiter in the "Text Import Wizard"
filter out the column A with "To:", then will get all the email address on column B
Can't believe this is much simpler than VBA...
Thank you guys for your help! Just can't really deal with the "Outlook NDR turning to unreadable characters" bug with so many restrictions on a work station, think this might be helpful!
For getting addresses... I can pull the address from the action.reply which creates an outlook message with a body and sender:
Sub Addressess_GET_for_all_selected()
Dim objSel As Selection
Dim i As Integer
Dim objMail As MailItem
Dim objRept As ReportItem
Dim oa As Recipient
Dim strStr As String
Dim objAct As Action
Set objSel = Outlook.ActiveExplorer.Selection
Dim colAddrs As New Collection
On Error GoTo 0
frmProgress.SetMax (objSel.Count)
'On Error Resume Next 'GoTo Set_Domains_Mail_Collection_ERR
On Error GoTo SkipObj: ''for unhandled types
For i = 1 To objSel.Count
Set objMail = Nothing
If objSel(i).Class = olReport Then ''report email addresses 2020-02-12
Set objRept = Nothing
Set objRept = objSel(i)
For Each objAct In objRept.Actions
If objAct.Name = "Reply" Then
Set objMail = objAct.Execute
Exit For
End If
Next objAct
End If
''fire on objmail or if is omail
If objSel(i).Class = olMail Then
Set objMail = objSel(i)
End If
If Not objMail Is Nothing Then
DoEvents
For Each oa In objMail.Recipients
colAddrs.Add GetSMTPAddress(oa.Address)
Next oa
On Error Resume Next '<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
colAddrs.Add GetSMTPAddress(objMail.sender.Address)
On Error GoTo 0 '<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
objMail.Delete
End If
SkipObj:
frmProgress.SetCurrent (i)
Next i
SortDedupCollection_PUSH colAddrs
frmProgress.Hide
End Sub
And GET SMTP:
Private Function GetSMTPAddress(ByVal strAddress As String) As String
' As supplied by Vikas Verma ... see
' http://blogs.msdn.com/vikas/archive/2007/10/24/oom-getting-primary-smtp-address-from-x400-x500-sip-ccmail-etc.aspx
Dim olApp As Object
Dim oCon As Object
Dim strKey As String
Dim oRec As Recipient ' Object
Dim strRet As String
Dim fldr As Object
'IF OUTLOOK VERSION IS >= 2007 THEN USES NATIVE OOM PROPERTIES AND METHODS
On Error Resume Next
If InStr(1, strAddress, "#", vbTextCompare) <> 0 Then
GetSMTPAddress = strAddress
Exit Function
End If
Set olApp = Application
Set fldr = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(10).Folders.Item("Random")
If fldr Is Nothing Then
olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(10).Folders.Add "Random"
Set fldr = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(10).Folders.Item("Random")
End If
On Error GoTo 0
If CInt(Left(olApp.VERSION, 2)) >= 12 Then
Set oRec = olApp.Session.CreateRecipient(strAddress)
If oRec.Resolve Then
On Error Resume Next
strRet = oRec.AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser.PrimarySmtpAddress
If strRet = "" Then
strRet = Split(oRec.AddressEntry.Name, "(")(2) ''at least provide name.
strRet = Left(strRet, InStr(1, strRet, ")") - 1)
End If
On Error GoTo 0
End If
End If
If Not strRet = "" Then GoTo ReturnValue
'IF OUTLOOK VERSION IS < 2007 THEN USES LITTLE HACK
'How it works
'============
'1) It will create a new contact item
'2) Set it's email address to the value passed by you, it could be X500,X400 or any type of email address stored in the AD
'3) We will assign a random key to this contact item and save it in its Fullname to search it later
'4) Next we will save it to local contacts folder
'5) Outlook will try to resolve the email address & make AD call if required else take the Primary SMTP address from its cache and append it to Display name
'6) The display name will be something like this " ( email.address#server.com )"
'7) Now we need to parse the Display name and delete the contact from contacts folder
'8) Once the contact is deleted it will go to Deleted Items folder, after searching the contact using the unique random key generated in step 3
'9) We then need to delete it from Deleted Items folder as well, to clean all the traces
Set oCon = fldr.items.Add(2)
oCon.Email1Address = strAddress
strKey = "_" & Replace(Rnd * 100000 & Format(Now, "DDMMYYYYHmmss"), ".", "")
oCon.FullName = strKey
oCon.Save
strRet = Trim(Replace(Replace(Replace(oCon.Email1DisplayName, "(", ""), ")", ""), strKey, ""))
oCon.Delete
Set oCon = Nothing
Set oCon = olApp.Session.GetDefaultFolder(3).items.Find("[Subject]=" & strKey)
If Not oCon Is Nothing Then oCon.Delete
ReturnValue:
GetSMTPAddress = strRet
End Function
sI have been having exactly the same issue. All of the NDR messages I am dealing with are of the class "REPORT.IPM.Note.NDR" and the method I found for obtaining the original recipient was pieced together from a number of these sorts of posts and questions that I've been trawling through!
I am using the PropertyAccessor.GetProperty method against the ReportItem to obtain the PR_DISPLAY_TO property value from the header information of the ReportItem.
In VBA, I am using the MAPI namepace and looping through the olItems collection of a given folder containing the report messages. I'm running this from Access as my database front-end is built that way, but I would imagine you can probably run it from within Outlook VBA (but don't hold me to that).
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim OlMapi As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim olMail As Outlook.ReportItem
Dim OlItems As Outlook.Items
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set OlMapi = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolder = OlMapi.Folders("SMTP-ADDRESS-FOR-YOUR-MAILBOX").Folders("Inbox").Folders("NAME-OF-SUBFOLDER_CONTAINING-NDR-REPORTS")
Set OlItems = olFolder.Items
If OlItem.Count > 0 Then
For Each olMail In OlItems
strEmail = olMail.PropertyAccessor.GetProperty("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x0E04001E")
'DO WITH strEmail AS REQUIRED
DoEvents
Next
End If
The returned value from that MAPI property could be a semicolon delimited list where there are multiple recipients, so you could check for ';' in the returned string and then split into an array and iterate through to get each individual address, but in my case, there is only ever one recipient so I didn't need to over complicate it. It also may be a display name when the original recipient is a contact, so this may be a shortcoming for some, but again in my case, that's not a factor.
This is just a snippet of a bigger function so you will need to amend and integrate it to your needs, and obviously replace or amend the placeholders for the mailbox and subfolder values.
The intention is currently to also extract the NDR reason code so that I can automate removal of email addresses from our database where the reason is because the mailbox does not exist, so referring only to ReportItem object - This likely won't work for NDR emails which are not of that type, as I would image thoe MAPI properties are not available, however I have found in practice that all of the NDR messages come back like this as we are using Exchange Online.
I Did some tweaking to the original code in the first post,
and added a helper function to Extract Email From String, and seems to be working fine.
Sub List_Undeliverable_Email_To_Excel()
Dim myFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim Item As Outlook.MailItem 'MailItem
Dim xlApp As Object 'Excel.Application
Dim xlWB As Object 'Excel.Workbook
Dim xlSheet As Object 'Excel.Worksheet
Dim Lines() As String
Dim i As Integer, x As Integer, P As Integer
Dim myItem As Variant
Dim subjectOfEmail As String
Dim bodyOfEmail As String
'Try access to excel
On Error Resume Next
Set xlApp = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
If xlApp Is Nothing Then
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Application.Visible = True
If xlApp Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Excel is not accessable"
Exit Sub
End If
End If
On Error GoTo 0
'Add a new workbook
Set xlWB = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
xlApp.Application.Visible = True
Set xlSheet = xlWB.ActiveSheet
Set myFolder = GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("Real Estate").Folders("ag#joinreal.com")
For Each myItem In myFolder.Items
subjectOfEmail = myItem.Subject
bodyOfEmail = myItem.Body
'Search for Undeliverable email
If subjectOfEmail Like "*Undeliverable*" Or subjectOfEmail Like "*Undelivered*" Or subjectOfEmail Like "*Failure*" And subjectOfEmail Like "*Delivery*" Then 'bodyOfEmail Like "*Deliver*" And
x = x + 1
'Extract email address from email body
Lines = Split(bodyOfEmail, vbCrLf)
For i = 0 To UBound(Lines)
P = InStr(1, Lines(i), "#", vbTextCompare)
If P > 0 Then
EmailAdd = ExtractEmailFromString(Lines(i), True)
Debug.Print x & " " & EmailAdd
xlApp.Range("A" & x) = EmailAdd
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
Next
End Sub
Function ExtractEmailFromString(extractStr As String, Optional OnlyFirst As Boolean) As String
Dim CharList As String
On Error Resume Next
CheckStr = "[A-Za-z0-9._-]"
OutStr = ""
Index = 1
Do While True
Index1 = VBA.InStr(Index, extractStr, "#")
getStr = ""
If Index1 > 0 Then
For P = Index1 - 1 To 1 Step -1
If Mid(extractStr, P, 1) Like CheckStr Then
getStr = Mid(extractStr, P, 1) & getStr
Else
Exit For
End If
Next
getStr = getStr & "#"
For P = Index1 + 1 To Len(extractStr)
If Mid(extractStr, P, 1) Like CheckStr Then
getStr = getStr & Mid(extractStr, P, 1)
Else
Exit For
End If
Next
Index = Index1 + 1
If OutStr = "" Then
OutStr = getStr
If OnlyFirst = True Then GoTo E
Else
OutStr = OutStr & Chr(10) & getStr
End If
Else
Exit Do
End If
Loop
E:
ExtractEmailFromString = OutStr
End Function
There is a problem with the ReportItem.Body property in the Outlook Object Model (present in Outlook 2013 and 2016) - you can see it in OutlookSpy (I am its author): select an NDR message, click Item button, select the Body property - it will be garbled. Worse than that, once the report item is touched with OOM, Outlook will display the same junk in the preview pane.
The report text is stored in various MAPI recipient properties (click IMessage button in OutlookSpy and go to the GetRecipientTable tab). The problem is the ReportItem object does not expose the Recipients collection. The workaround is to either use Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi) or Redemption (I am its author - any language) - its RDOReportItem.ReportText property does not have this problem:
set oItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection(1)
set oSession = CreateObject("Redemption.RDOSession")
oSession.MAPIOBJECT = Application.Session.MAPIOBJECT
set rItem = oSession.GetRDOObjectFromOutlookObject(oItem)
MsgBox rItem.ReportText
You can also use RDOReportItem.Recipients collection to extract various NDR properties from the recipient table.
With the help of below coding I am able to retrieve the data from outlook inbox and update the same in excel.
The problem is that I am not able to update the latest response as macro read first come first update basis. If I get the response from abc yesterday and updated response from abc today, the macro is updating the yesterday's response. How can we change the code so that macro should read the emails from bottom of folder and the data that is pulled is updated.
In short, I want to update the latest response in my records.
Dim outlookApp As Outlook.Application, oOutlook As Object
Dim oInbox As Outlook.Folder, oMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim strAddress As String, strEntryId As String, getSmtpMailAddress As String
Dim objAddressentry As Outlook.AddressEntry, objExchangeUser As Outlook.ExchangeUser
Dim objReply As Outlook.MailItem, objRecipient As Outlook.Recipient
Set outlookApp = New Outlook.Application
Set oOutlook = outlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set oInbox = oOutlook.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
For Each oMail In oInbox.Items
If oMail.SenderEmailType = "SMTP" Then
strAddress = oMail.SenderEmailAddress
Else
Set objReply = oMail.Reply()
Set objRecipient = objReply.Recipients.Item(1)
strEntryId = objRecipient.EntryID
objReply.Close OlInspectorClose.olDiscard
strEntryId = objRecipient.EntryID
Set objAddressentry = oOutlook.GetAddressEntryFromID(strEntryId)
Set objExchangeUser = objAddressentry.GetExchangeUser()
strAddress = objExchangeUser.PrimarySmtpAddress()
End If
getSmtpMailAddress = strAddress
body = oMail.body
Loop backwards:
For i = oInbox.Count To 1 Step -1
If TypeName(oInbox.item(i)) = "MailItem" Then
Set oMail = oInbox.item(i)
'Do stuff here
Set oMail = Nothing
End If
Next i
I receive an automated email message (in Outlook) every time a room is reserved in a scheduling system but then have to go over and mirror that reservation in another system (which necessitates checking each reservation for specific information and searching through the inbox). I am trying to determine if there is a way to pull the information from the message section (I have found some code that pulls the date received, and subject line as well as read status, but cannot determine how to pull the message body information that I need)
The code that I am running is courtesy of Jie Jenn:
Sub ListOutlookEmailInfoinExcel()
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olTaskFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim olTask As Outlook.TaskItem
Dim olItems As Outlook.Items
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWB As Excel.Workbook
Dim x As Long
Dim arrHeaders As Variant
Set olNS = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olTaskFolder = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set olItems = olTaskFolder.Items
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Visible = True
Set xlWB = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
On Error Resume Next
x = 2
arrHeaders = Array("Date Created", "Date Recieved", "Subject", "Unread?")
xlWB.Worksheets(1).Range("A1").Resize(1, UBound(arrHeaders)).Value = ""
Do
With xlWB.Worksheets(1)
If Not (olItems(x).Subjects = "" And olItems(x).CreationTime = "") Then
.Range("A1").Resize(1, UBound(arrHeaders) + 1) = arrHeaders
.Cells(x, 1).Value = olItems(x).CreationTime
.Cells(x, 2).Value = olItems(x).ReceivedTime
.Cells(x, 3).Value = olItems(x).Subject
.Cells(x, 4).Value = olItems(x).UnRead
x = x + 1
End If
End With
Loop Until x >= olItems.Count + 1
Set olNS = Nothing
Set olTaskFolder = Nothing
Set olItems = Nothing
Set xlApp = Nothing
Set xlWB = Nothing
End Sub
With the above code, I get a readout of the Subject line, the date created/received and whether or not it has been read. I am trying to see if I can, in addition, get some of the unique string data within the message itself. The format of the emails that I receive is as follows:
Message-ID: sample info
User: test
Content1: test
Content2: test
Content3: test
Please submit a service request if you are receiving this message in error.
-Notice of NEW Room Request
Sponsored By: My_example#Test.com
Event Type: Meeting
Event Title: Test
Date of Reservation: 2015-12-02
Room: 150
From: 13:00
To: 14:00
The information will vary with each request, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to capture the unique strings that will come through so that I can keep a log of the requests that is much faster than the current manual entry and double-checks?
As requested in follow up, the following code splits the message body into individual lines of information. A couple of notes: I copied your message exactly from your post, then searched for "Notice of NEW Room Request". Needless to say, this string should always start the block of information that you need. If it varies, then we have to account for the type of messages that may come through. Also, you may have to test how your message body breaks up individual lines. When I copied and pasted your message into Excel, each line break was 2 line feeds (Chr(10) in VBA). In some cases, it may be only one line feed. Or it can be a Carriage Return (Chr(13)), or even both.
Without further ado, see the code below and let us know of questions.
Sub SplitBody()
Dim sBody As String
Dim sBodyLines() As String
sBody = Range("A1").Value
sBodyLines() = Split(Mid(sBody, InStr(sBody, "Notice of NEW Room Request"), Len(sBody)), Chr(10) & Chr(10))
For i = LBound(sBodyLines) To UBound(sBodyLines)
MsgBox (sBodyLines(i))
Next i
End Sub
Below is an example connecting to an Outlook session, navigating to the default Inbox, then looping through items and adding unread emails to the spreadsheet. See if you can modify the code to your needs, and post back if specific help is needed.
Sub LinkToOutlook()
Dim olApp As Object
Dim olNS As Object
Dim olFolderInbox As Object
Dim rOutput As Range
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olNS = olApp.getNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolderInbox = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(6) 'Gets the default inbox folder
Set rOutput = Sheet1.Range("A1")
For Each itm In olFolderInbox.items
If itm.unread = True Then 'check if it has already been read
rOutput.Value = itm.body
Set rOutput = rOutput.Offset(1)
End If
Next itm
End Sub
Alternatively, you can write code in Outlook directly that looks for new mail arrival, and from there, you can test if it meets your criteria, and if it does, it can write to Excel. Here's a link to get you started. Post back for added help.
Using VBA to read new Outlook Email?