How to display other text instead of sendername?

Question

Hello,

can I change the displayed sendername? I want to change it in the mail window.

Explanation: I'm getting mails from a person that has a lot of whitespaces in his sender name. I already wrote a function to remove those whitespaces.
I know, I can't change the sender name. But I hope I can display the sender name without all the whitespaces.

I changed the MailItem.SentOnBehalfOfName value and in Outlook explorer I can see the changes. But above the mail text in mail window there is still the name with all the whitespaces.



Thank you very much.

Answer 1

You need to modify the PR_SENDER_NAME MAPI property (DASL name http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x0C1A001F). It corresponds to MailItem.SenderName in the Outlook Object Model, but it is read-only. MailItem.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty will not let you modify it - you can do that only using Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi) or Redemption.

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Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
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