How to set the From field programmatically

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Hi,

I'm creating an Outlook Mail using the following piece of code (C#):

// Creates a new Outlook Application Instance
Outlook.Application outlook = new Outlook.Application();
// Creating a new Outlook Message from the Outlook Application Instance
Outlook.MailItem mic =
(Outlook.MailItem)(outlook.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem));
// Assigns the "TO"
mic.To = "(e-mail address removed)";
// Assigns the Subject Field
mic.Subject = subject;
// Define the Mail Message Body. In this example, you can add in HTML
content to the mail message body
mic.BodyFormat = Outlook.OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML;
mic.HTMLBody = "test";
// Display using Outlook
mic.Display(false);

I would like to know how to set the "From" field. How should I proceed?

I'm using Outlook 12.

Thanks
 
Outlook version?

For Outlook 2007 you can set the sending account, assuming it's a configured
email account in the Outlook profile. Otherwise you'd have to use the
SentOnBehalfOfName property.
 
Thanks for your response...

As specified in my initial post, I'm using Outlook version 12 (aka Outlook
2007).

Maybe I should say that I don't want to send an email using a different user
name or anything. Using Outlook itself, I can specify the "From" email
address without using a different account. The email address is a
distribution list, it's not a different account or anything.

I don't want to use the 'SentOnBehalfOfName' property because I don't want
the receiver to see my name.

This works fine with Outlook, I'm just trying to do the same with the Interop.

Thank you
 
Technically when you set the From field in the UI you are setting the
PR_SENT_REPRESENTING_NAME MAPI property, which is shown as the
SentOnBehalfOf property in the Outlook object model.

You can of course try to set the PR_SENT_REPRESENTING_NAME property using
the PropertyAccessor of the MailItem and the DASL property tag
"urn:schemas:httpmail:sendername", or you can use SentOnBehalfOf as I
suggested.
 
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