Outlook : How to get email from Recipient field?

Question

I'm attempting to get the email address typed into the To field of a compose mail window.

I try to get the Address property of a Recipient, which according to VS, should give me the email.

I am instead receiving a string that looks like this:

"/c=US/a=att/p=Microsoft/o=Finance/ou=Purchasing/s=Furthur/g=Joe"

How can I get the email address in the recipient field?

My code so far:

List <string> emails = new List<string>();

if (thisMailItem.Recipients.Count > 0)
{
    foreach (Recipient rec in thisMailItem.Recipients)
    {
        emails.Add(rec.Address);
    }
}
return emails;

Answer 1

Can you try this ?

emails.Add(rec.AddressEntry.Address);

Reference link

EDIT:

I don't have the right environment to test so I'm just guessing all this, but how about

string email1Address = rec.AddressEntry.GetContact().Email1Address;

or .Email2Adress or .Email3Address

Also there is,

rec.AddressEntry.GetExchangeUser().Address

that you might want to try.

Answer 2

Try this

private string GetSMTPAddressForRecipients(Recipient recip)
        {
            const string PR_SMTP_ADDRESS =
                "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x39FE001E";

            PropertyAccessor pa = recip.PropertyAccessor;
            string smtpAddress = pa.GetProperty(PR_SMTP_ADDRESS).ToString();
            return smtpAddress;

        }

This is available on MSDN here

I have used the same way to get email addresses in my application and its working.

Answer 3

the AddressEntry also has an SMTPAddress property that exposes the primary smtp adress of the user.