Can emails sent via my app appear in Outlook Sent Items?

[BrianBurgit]

Hi everyone,

I hope this is the correct forum, if not please point me in the right direction. I have a VB.NET application that sends email. Is it possible to have those emails show up in my Sent Items in Outlook?

Thanks,

Brian

 

[vbajock]

Does the app use the Outlook MAPI object lib to send the email or is it sending it via CDO or SMTP ?

 

[BrianBurgit]

I am sending mail via SMTP

 

[vbajock]

If your application is using SMTP objects to send email, then the only way to make them show up in outlook is to BCC the Outlook address you want the email to go to, but it will go to the Outlook InBox, not the Sent box. If you want to manipulate the user's local Outlook environment so that your application ports everything thru the local email client (his Outlook), you need to re-wrtie the transport code to use MAPI and CDO libraries. You might want to look into this book:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/cdomapi/chapter/ch07.html

Many programmers avoid MAPI and CDO solutions, because MS upgrades and version changes can make your code crash - by using MAPI and CDO, you become essentially dependent on whatever the current versions of Outlook and Exchange in your environment happens to be.

 

[BrianBurgit]

Thanks for the info