Outlook, resolve the smtp address from mailitem

[Delphi-Lover]

Hello,

To get the e-mail address from the inbox items you can do the following below.
But if the e-mail comes from a smtp server the adddress will be like "/o=provider/ou=first/cn=recipients/cn=DelphiLover"
Anybody know how to obtain the real address?
Oh, don't just look on the web and come with a non-code, because I've tried them all and they all fail!! The source that you'll find will look like :

"obj.GetAddressEntry(strAddressEntryID).Fields(Cdo PR_EMAIL).Value;" (where CdoPR_EMAIL = $39FE001E)

and this will not work.

Delphi-Quellcode:

var obj: OleVariant;
    emailaddress: string;
    Item,objMsgs, objFolder, objAddressEntry : OleVariant;
begin
  obj := CreateOleObject('MAPI.Session');
  obj.Logon('','',False,False);
  objFolder:=obj.Inbox;
  objMsgs:=objFolder.Messages;
  Item:=objMsgs.GetFirst;

  objAddressEntry:=Item.Sender;
  emailaddress:=objAddressEntry.Address;
  Showmessage(emailaddress);
End;

[Delphi-Lover]

Hello,

I found a solution by opening the Outlook Global Address List (GAL) and check all the items and see if you can find that SMTP-string. If found then you can ask the GAL for the real address. I'm not going to publish the code, but you can find it on the web. like :

Outlook Addressbook

In the code he is using a try..except to check the interface type..
I think better coding is to check the interface by the queryinterface:

Delphi-Quellcode:

Check:=IUnknown(myAddressEntry.MAPIOBJECT).QueryInterface(IMailUser,MP);
If Check=0 then MP:=IUnknown(myAddressEntry.MAPIOBJECT) as IMailUser
else MP:= IUnknown(myAddressEntry.MAPIOBJECT) as IDistList;

Some of the examples (VB/Delphi/C) you can find will not work, but sometimes that's because the Delphi Server Outlook Component is adding the "Outlook8" unit in the Uses part of the source. (In Delphi 5 it does..) In this unit there are a lot of functions/procedures/properties that will be used by the example codes, but also a lot of functionality that is not in the outlook8. So, when you use this unit a lot of examples will not work. (and for some days you ask yourself why?!:-) To solve this problem you can add another unit called "Outlook2000". A lot of examples will work with this unit. You can use them both if you like.

Delphi-Quellcode:

Uses  OleServer, Outlook8, Outlook2000;

Greetings,

Delphi Lover.