Outlook PowerShell script to set Direct Replies To address-CodePudding

I have an automated powershell script to send alert email. Since the alert are send from a generic email.. i want people replying to the email to goto another email address say [email protected].

$Outlook = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)
$Mail.To = "[email protected]"
$Mail.Subject = "Alert Email"
$Mail.HtmlBody = $HTML
$Mail.Headers.Add("In-Reply-To", "<[email protected]>")
$Mail.display()
$Mail.send()

somehow this is not working.

Managed to get it from the below ReplyRecipientNames

$Mail.ReplyRecipientNames = "[email protected]"

CodePudding user response：

Firstly, MailItem object does not expose the Headers property - your script will stop rigth there.

If you want to redirect replies to a different address, use Mail.ReplyRecipients.Add("[email protected]")

CodePudding user response：

You can use the MailItem.SendUsingAccount property which allows setting up an Account object that represents the account under which the MailItem is to be sent. Be aware, the account should be configured in Outlook in that case. For example, here is a VBA code sample which shows how to set up the property:

Sub SendUsingAccount() 
 Dim oAccount As Outlook.account 
 For Each oAccount In Application.Session.Accounts 
   If oAccount.AccountType = olPop3 Then 
     Dim oMail As Outlook.MailItem 
     Set oMail = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem) 
     oMail.Subject = "Sent using POP3 Account" 
     oMail.Recipients.Add ("[email protected]") 
     oMail.Recipients.ResolveAll 
     Set oMail.SendUsingAccount = oAccount 
     oMail.Send 
   End If 
  Next 
End Sub

For Exchange users you may also consider using the MailItem.SentOnBehalfOfName property which is represented by a string indicating the display name for the intended sender of the mail message.

But also you may be interested in the MailItem.ReplyRecipients property which returns a Recipients collection that represents all the reply recipient objects for the Outlook item. The following article which I wrote for the technical blog shows how to deal with a recipient collection, see How To: Fill TO,CC and BCC fields in Outlook programmatically for more information.