outlook 98

in code, i create a contact item, attach it to a mail item, send the mail
item.

  Set OutlookMailItem = OutlookApplication.CreateItem(olMailItem)
  Set OutlookContactItem = OutlookApplication.CreateItem(olContactItem)
  OutlookMailItem.Attachments.Add OutlookContactItem, olByValue
  OutlookMailItem.Send

before it is sent, if i make a copy of the mail item and move it to a
neutral folder and examine the mail item, it's attachment is clearly of type
contact item (double-clicking it shows a contact item in the default view)

however, once the mail item arrives on the client, its attachment is now
interpreted as a mail item (envelope icon) , with very poor results (double
clicking the attachment shows that the contact item's fields have been
mapped onto a mail item -- with only the Body property actually showing up
as the mail item's text)

very strange

i have tried doing the same thing manually , with the same results

Are you sending in RTF format, both in the message and in the recipient's
address? See http://www.slipstick.com/dev/sendform.htm.
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Sue Mosher
Author of
  "Teach Yourself Microsoft Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours"
  "Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-mail and Fax Guide" (12/99)

Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com

Sue, Thanks for the response and the link to your website.

http://www.slipstick.com/dev/sendform.htm.

On this web page are instructions for manually ensuring that recipients of
various Outlook Items meant to be sent as special forms actually receive the
items as special forms, instead of normal messages.

All of these instructions must be implemented manually, e.g.

"Check the box for Always send to this recipient in Microsoft Outlook
rich-text format, and then click OK. "

I am doing everything in code : creating a Contact Item , then attaching the
Contact Item to a Mail Item , creating a Recipient Item, addressing the
Recipient Item , attaching the Recipient Item to the Mail Item's Recipients
Collection, and then Sending the Mail Item.

Do you know how to ensure that my Mail Items are sent as special forms so
that the Contact Item attachments show up as Contact Items on the
client-side (when the attachment icon is double-clicked).

I have looked over the properties of the following Outlook Objects and not
been able to discover how to accomplish this.

ContactItem
MailItem
MailItem.Recipient
MailItem.Recipient.AddressEntry

The Send as RTF property is not exposed in the Outlook object model and is
read-only in the CDO model. Unless the recipient record is already set as
RTF, the message won't be sent in RTF.

One exception: If you work in CDO, not Outlook, and are sending to the


might try something like this:

1. Create your contact and message with the contact attached.
2. Save it.
3. Get the message and store ID and use them to open the just saved message
using CDO.
4. Set the recipients using the above format.
5. Send with CDO.
--
Sue Mosher
Author of
  "Teach Yourself Microsoft Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours"
  "Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-mail and Fax Guide" (12/99)

Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com

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The Send as RTF property is not exposed in the Outlook object model and is
read-only in the CDO model. Unless the recipient record is already set as
RTF, the message won't be sent in RTF.

Sue, Do you know why it was designed this way ?  Is this to prevent various
"client side" Outlook Automation programmers from tampering with possibly
enterprise-wide server-side address book settings ?

can the "always RTF" option be set using Exchange Server Scripting ?

No. I don't know. And no.
--
Sue Mosher
Author of
  "Teach Yourself Microsoft Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours"
  "Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-mail and Fax Guide" (12/99)

Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com