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Email Address of the Current User

Hi,

How can I get the Email Address of the Login User from Outlook.

The Me.Session.CurrentUser.address return a lot of additional data, what I want is just the Email Address.

Thanks.

Andy Ho

This is returning the X400 name for your exchange server. I am not sure this is possible through the basic Outlook Object Model, you could use LDAP and query the Exchange server settings to get the SMTP based address. This newsgroup is more for VSTO Related queries.

Sample VBScript file

' Create the ADSystem Information Object

Set objADSystemInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
' Get the current information into a new Object
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & objADSystemInfo.UserName)

'Now use the mail property for the SMTP Address
Wscript.Echo "SMTP Address: " & objUser.mail

Additionally you could use CDO but this isnt supported using Managed code :(

Regards

Mike Walker MVP - Visual Developer VSTO - Please mark the best replies as Answers !

Mike Walker

To get the SMTP address from an Exchange sender or recipient in versions before Outlook 2007, use CDO 1.21 (which isn't supported in .NET languages) or Redemption and the PR_EMAIL (&H39FE001E) MAPI property to obtain the SMTP address from the AddressEntry object. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/getsenderaddy.htm#redemption and http://www.cdolive.com/cdo5.htm#EMailAddressOfSender for examples. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP wrote in message news:ca830d83-12e4-4e01-89ae-fc579c7d80ab@discussions.microsoft.com... > Hi, > > How can I get the Email Address of the Login User from Outlook. > > The Me.Session.CurrentUser.address return a lot of additional data, what > I want is just the Email Address. > > Thanks. > > Andy Ho > > > >

NNTP User

Thanks for the reply.

Really surprise that for a tool to write Outlook plug-in doesn't have any method to retrieve the user's email address. 8-(

Andy

Andy Ho

Outlook 2007 will return the SMTP address, even for Exchange users.

Sue Mosher - Outlook MVP

Yes, very surprising that it has to be so difficult. I _should be_ (but isn't) just as easy as something like this:
myEmailAddress = this.ActiveExplorer().Session.CurrentUser.EmailAddress; (Notice: EmailAddress was made up by me)

Is there really no other way, to get the current user's e-mail address, than using Redemption in .Net 2005 (using C#) since Redemption is costly.

I heard something about asking Active Directory for the e-mail address by giving it the current username (which is easy to retrieve).

If not, what about LDAP, could someone please show some example code on how to do that in C#? (that visual basic script above here really confuses me) ;)

Thanks in advance
Magnus

ripern

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