outlook.application mailitem --> howto open form as reply?

Question

hey,

 

i want to open a mail in outlook

i do this atm this way:

  mailFolder = nameSpace.getDefaultFolder(6);
  mailItem = mailFolder.Items.add('IPM.Note.FormA');

this works good so far

 

but: i want to open a mailwindow as a reply

cause: if i start to write in this mail, the text format should be the same as the text format in an reply message

 

e.g. in an normal mail u have black colour and in an replymail u have blue colur

 

 

is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Hello,

Thanks for posting. If I understand this issue correctly, the message class of the replied mail is IPM.Note.FormA when replying a mail item. Actually, Outlook object model does not expose a method/property to check if the current mail item is replied. However, as Sue said in this thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/1130684a-4283-4318-bcc6-4f849cb447c0/, MAPI property may be what you want. I am not familiar with this part, and hope it could help you. Then we could use MailItem.MessageClass property to set the mail item as IPM.Note.FormA. For this property, please see this MSDN page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb175508(v=office.12).aspx.

If you have any concern on this post, or I have mistaken this issue, just feel free to follow up. Have a nice weekend.

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Answer 2

Why not set the HTML body that explicitly specifies the appropriate text color?

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Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
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Answer 3

ty for the answer

 

but im in javascript and i dont think i can do it this way :(

 

 

to dmitry: i dont want to specifiy the textcolor cause this is an other behaviar than to write in a reply message

in a relpy message, every text i am writing is in the specified color, no matter if im in the text of the email or outside

 

if i specify a color, i can specify it only in the place where no text is written

if i want to write something in the text, its not the new color

 

i hope i could explain it with my bad english :)

Answer 4

Why not check how Outlook sets the color for replies in HTMLBody and do the same in your message?

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Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
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Redemption - what the Outlook
Object Model should have been