How to decide if an Outlook message is created by New/Reply/Forwar

**X. Zhang** · May 16th 08, 09:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba

Thanks Sue. "Sent" should work for me.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Replies almost always have a Recipients.Count 0 (a reply with no sender would be rare). Forwards have Recipients.Count = 0.

Received items will have Sent = True.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

"X. Zhang" wrote in message ...
Thank you for your reply, Ken. But both your suggestions will not work for me:

1) ConversationIndex - yes, it's blank for a New item; but for an existing
item, it always has a value no matter if you created an item by Reply/Forward
an existing one, or opened an existing item by simple double clicking it.
2) "" or "FW:" - a) is not reliable (either the user can modify it at any
time, or it may vary for different languages); b) again, cannot distinguish
an item created by Reply/Forward from an item (may already has or FW: in
the subject) opened by double clicking.

I may not be very clear. What I really want is the way to distinguish the
items created by Reply/Forward, "which are suppose to be sent out" (quoted
from my original post), from the items opened by double clicking, which just
for viewing or printing or whatever purposes.

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

If the item is a reply or forward it would have a ConversationIndex property
that isn't null. Other than that you'd have to look at the subject and look
for "" or "FW:" or whatever.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

"X. Zhang" wrote in message
...
How to decide if an Outlook message is created by New/Reply/Forward in VB?
What I'm trying to do is to list all open outlook messages created by
New/Reply/Forward, which are suppose to be sent out.

Thanks.

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