How to get recipient email address from Excel? - excel

Question

I'm trying to get the .To email address from my sent box using Excel-VBA. However, To only returns the name not the email address. After some search found that the recipient should be what I'm looking for. Tried by following the msdn guide, but the code does not seem to work.
Sub test()
Dim objoutlook As Object
Dim objNamespace As Object
Dim olFolder As Object
Dim OutlookMail As outlook.MailItem
Set objoutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objNamespace = objoutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolder = objNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail)
Set OutlookMail = objoutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
Dim recips As outlook.Recipients
Dim recip As outlook.Recipient
Dim pa As outlook.PropertyAccessor
Const PR_SMTP_ADDRESS As String = _
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x39FE001E"
Set recips = OutlookMail.Recipients
For Each recip In recips 'Something is wrong here
Set pa = recip.PropertyAccessor
Debug.Print recip.Name & " SMTP=" & pa.GetProperty(PR_SMTP_ADDRESS)
Next
Set olFolder = Nothing
Set objNamespace = Nothing
Set objoutlook = Nothing
End Sub
I'm not really familiar with VBA, please guide along.

Answer 1

You can try this:
Private Sub GetRecipientSMTP(objAllRecip As Outlook.Recipients)
Dim objRecip As Outlook.Recipient
Dim objExUser As Outlook.ExchangeUser
Dim objExDisUser As Outlook.ExchangeDistributionList
For Each objRecip In objAllRecip
Select Case objRecip.AddressEntry.AddressEntryUserType
Case 0, 10
Set objExUser = objRecip.AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser
If Not objExUser Is Nothing Then _
Debug.Print objExUser.PrimarySmtpAddress '/* or copy somewhere */
Case 1
Set objExDisUser = objRecip.AddressEntry.GetExchangeDistributionList
If Not objExDisUser Is Nothing Then _
Debug.Print objExDisUser.PrimarySmtpAddress '/* or copy somewhere */
Case Else
'/* Do nothing, recipient not recognized */
End Select
Next
End Sub
You can run it in your sub like below using recips from your code (or see sample usage).
GetRecipientSMTP recips
Basically, this will check on the each Recipient on Recipients you supplied. Then will check if it is an ExchangeUser type or ExchangeDistributionList before returning the PrimartSMTPAddress. HTH.
Sample Usage:
Sub marine()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNs As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim i As Integer
Set olApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") '/* assuming OL is running */
Set olNs = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolder = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
With olFolder
For i = .Items.Count To 1 Step -1
If TypeOf .Items(i) Is MailItem Then
Set olMail = .Items(i)
GetRecipientSMTP olMail.Recipients
End If
Exit For '/* I just want to process the first mail */
Next
End With
End Sub
Note: I used early binding and set reference to Outlook Object Library.

Answer 2

Quick Example
Option Explicit
Public Sub Example()
Dim OUTLOOK_APP As Outlook.Application
Dim olNs As Outlook.Namespace
Dim SENT_FLDR As MAPIFolder
Dim Items As Outlook.Items
Dim olRecip As Outlook.Recipient
Dim olRecipAddress As String
Dim i As Long
Set OUTLOOK_APP = New Outlook.Application
Set olNs = OUTLOOK_APP.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set SENT_FLDR = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderSentMail)
Set Items = SENT_FLDR.Items
For i = Items.Count To 1 Step -1
DoEvents
If Items(i).Class = olMail Then
For Each olRecip In Items(i).Recipients
olRecipAddress = olRecip.Address
Debug.Print olRecipAddress
Next
End If
Next
End Sub

Answer 3

this is my way of getting Recipient email Address. I hope it would help you.
Sub CopyCurrentContact()
Dim objRcp As Outlook.Recipient
Dim objRcpS As Outlook.Recipients
Dim rcpStr As String
Set outLookObj = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set InspectorObj = outLookObj.ActiveInspector
Set ItemObj = InspectorObj.CurrentItem
Set objRcpS = ItemObj.Recipients
For Each objRcp In objRcpS
rcpStr = objRcp.Address & "; " & rcpStr
Debug.Print rcpStr
Next objRcp
End Sub