SenderName Value

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Mark Ivey

Is there a way to get the SenderName Value via code?

From what I can tell, this is trapped behind some of the security features
in Outlook.

I am wanting to reference this value so I can utilize it in an effort to
make an archiving macro.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mark Ivey
 
Outlook version? Code environment for your project?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Is there a way to get the SenderName Value via code?

From what I can tell, this is trapped behind some of the security features
in Outlook.

I am wanting to reference this value so I can utilize it in an effort to
make an archiving macro.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mark Ivey
Click to expand...

There is a very easy way to do this.

Just save the email message to a file. There will be a line in the
file "Sender: Fred J. Muggs " plus the sender's email. Use the split
command on the line with a colon as the separator.

Take a look at the file and there will be a number of fields in there.
With a little program to loop through the fields in the text file, you
may be able to get everything you need very easily.

By using the spilit command and the resulting array, you will get the
field name and the field value in the array. Then, you can process
each field as you like.

Depending on your needs, it can be a good solution.

Greg
 
Outlook version?

I am designing it at home in Outlook 2002, but plan on using it at work for
Outlook 2003.

Code environment for your project?

VBA (and VBS if needed).



Outlook version? Code environment for your project?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Greg,

I appreciate your feedback, but I wasn't planning on saving the email to a
file outside of Outlook.

My plan is to be able to select one or more emails and click on a button (to
fire a macro) and have these emails sent to their appropriate backup folder
in my Personal folder list. For example:

If I select and email from John Brown, and then click on this button. I
would expect this email to be moved to my personal folder "2007" and into a
subfolder labeled "John Brown".

If someone has already invented the wheel with respect to what I am needing,
I would greatly appreciate some code snippets (VBA preferably).

TIA...

Mark Ivey
 
Outlook 2002 VBA will give you security prompts, but Outlook 2003 won't, as long as you derive all objects from the intrinsic Application object.

Greg's suggestion doesn't help, BTW, because the SaveAs method triggers a security prompt.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks for the info Sue...

Here is some code I found and altered a bit on the web from Eric Legault -
B.A, MCP, MCSD, Outlook MVP. My problem is not knowing how to reference the
subfolder I need due to these security items I have mentioned. Do you think
the code below should work for Outlook 2003? If not, could you make a
suggestion.

My biggest concern is this line: "Set objFolder =
Outlook.Session.Folders("2007" & objItem.SenderName)"
How do I reference a subfolder in my personal folders list with the variable
"SenderName"?

'__________________________________________________________________________________
Sub MoveSelectedMessagesToFolder()
On Error Resume Next

Dim objFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder, objInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace, objItem As Outlook.MailItem

Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objInbox = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set objFolder = Outlook.Session.Folders("2007" & objItem.SenderName)

If objFolder Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "This folder doesn't exist!", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation,
"INVALID FOLDER"
End If

If Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count = 0 Then
'Require that this procedure be called only when a message is
selected
Exit Sub
End If

For Each objItem In Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection
If objFolder.DefaultItemType = olMailItem Then
If objItem.Class = olMail Then
objItem.Move objFolder
End If
End If
Next

Set objItem = Nothing
Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objInbox = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing
End Sub
'__________________________________________________________________________________

Outlook 2002 VBA will give you security prompts, but Outlook 2003 won't, as
long as you derive all objects from the intrinsic Application object.

Greg's suggestion doesn't help, BTW, because the SaveAs method triggers a
security prompt.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Session.Folders returns the collection of top-level folders, i.e. all the individual .pst files or mailboxes. To get a non-default folder, you need to walk the folder hierarchy starting with that collections or use a function that does that for you. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/getfolder.htm

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Outlook 2002 VBA will give you security prompts, but Outlook 2003 won't, as long as you derive all objects from the intrinsic Application object.

Greg's suggestion doesn't help, BTW, because the SaveAs method triggers a security prompt.
Click to expand...

I should have mentioned that. You have to deal with the security
prompt. Just do a search to find Sue's articles on that.

Thanks.
 
Sue,

Can you tell me what is wrong with my code below? I cannot seem to figure
out the right way to reference the SenderName value. It keeps throwing the
following error for line 9.

Run-time error '91':

Object variable or With block variable not set

'__________________________________________________________________________________
Sub MoveSelectedMessagesToFolder()
On Error Resume Next

Dim objFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder, objInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace, objItem As Outlook.MailItem

Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objInbox = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set objFolder =
Outlook.Session.Folders("2007").Folders(objItem.SenderName)

If objFolder Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "This folder doesn't exist!", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation,
"INVALID FOLDER"
End If

If Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count = 0 Then
'Require that this procedure be called only when a message is
selected
Exit Sub
End If

For Each objItem In Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection
If objFolder.DefaultItemType = olMailItem Then
If objItem.Class = olMail Then
objItem.Move objFolder
End If
End If
Next

Set objItem = Nothing
Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objInbox = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing
End Sub
'__________________________________________________________________________________










Session.Folders returns the collection of top-level folders, i.e. all the
individual .pst files or mailboxes. To get a non-default folder, you need to
walk the folder hierarchy starting with that collections or use a function
that does that for you. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/getfolder.htm

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
You mean this statement? (Please, please tell us which statement is causing problems rather than giving a line number.)

Set objFolder = Outlook.Session.Folders("2007").Folders(objItem.SenderName)

First, there's no object named Outlook in your code.

Second, you already have a Namespace object through which you can access the Folders collection. You instantiated it with this statement:

Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Therefore, the correct statement, assuming you have a .pst file with the display name 2007, would be:

Set objFolder = objNS.Folders("2007").Folders(objItem.SenderName)
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks Sue...


You mean this statement? (Please, please tell us which statement is causing
problems rather than giving a line number.)

Set objFolder =
Outlook.Session.Folders("2007").Folders(objItem.SenderName)

First, there's no object named Outlook in your code.

Second, you already have a Namespace object through which you can access the
Folders collection. You instantiated it with this statement:

Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Therefore, the correct statement, assuming you have a .pst file with the
display name 2007, would be:

Set objFolder = objNS.Folders("2007").Folders(objItem.SenderName)
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue,

It appears that the item that is throwing the error is "objItem.SenderName"
in the same line you referenced. It is saying "Object variable or With block
variable not set". Am I not referencing this value correctly? What is the
appropriate method to call this value?

TIA,
Mark Ivey

You mean this statement? (Please, please tell us which statement is causing
problems rather than giving a line number.)

Set objFolder =
Outlook.Session.Folders("2007").Folders(objItem.SenderName)

First, there's no object named Outlook in your code.

Second, you already have a Namespace object through which you can access the
Folders collection. You instantiated it with this statement:

Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Therefore, the correct statement, assuming you have a .pst file with the
display name 2007, would be:

Set objFolder = objNS.Folders("2007").Folders(objItem.SenderName)
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Your code doesn't set objItem to a value until it gets to the For Each loop. Therefore, any statements referring to that object need to be inside the loop.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks for your help Sue...

Sorry to be thick-headed, but I am still learning Outlook VBA. I find VBA to
be much easier in Excel.

Here is my finished product if anyone was interested:
__________________________________________________________________________________
Special thanks to: Eric Legault, Steven Harvey, and Sue Mosher for helping
derive the version posted below.
__________________________________________________________________________________
Sub ArchiveToFolder()
On Error Resume Next

Dim objFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder, objInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace, objItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim myFolder As String

myFolder = Format(Date, "yyyy") ' My personal folder is labeled as the
current year (ie - '2007')

Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objInbox = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set objFolder = objNS.Folders(myFolder)

If Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count = 0 Then
'Require that this procedure be called only when a message is
selected
Exit Sub
End If

For Each objItem In Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection

If FolderExist(objItem.SenderName) = False Then
objFolder.Folders.Add (objItem.SenderName)
End If

Set objFolder = objNS.Folders(myFolder).Folders(objItem.SenderName)

If objFolder.DefaultItemType = olMailItem Then
If objItem.Class = olMail Then
objItem.Move objFolder
Set objFolder = objNS.Folders(myFolder)
End If
End If
Next

Set objItem = Nothing
Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objInbox = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing

End Sub

Function FolderExist(sFileName As String) As Boolean
FolderExist = IIf(Dir(sFileName, vbDirectory) <> "", True, False)
End Function
__________________________________________________________________________________


Mark Ivey

Your code doesn't set objItem to a value until it gets to the For Each loop.
Therefore, any statements referring to that object need to be inside the
loop.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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