Determining Current User's Default E-Mail Account

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Jason Kallelis - 15 Jun 2005 20:02 GMT

Is there a way, using VBA in Outlook, to programatically determine what the
currently logged-in profile's default e-mail account is? My company has a
product with customized Outlook functionality, but when the user's Outlook
profile has a different default e-mail account than Exchange (for instance, a
POP account), then we can encounter issues, so we're hoping to detect such a
problem in the setup process. Is it possible to do this using MAPI, or do I
have to check the Windows registry itself? Either way, what is the easiest
way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 15 Jun 2005 20:36 GMT

Outlook version?

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Jason Kallelis - 15 Jun 2005 21:11 GMT

2003, XP, and potentially 2000.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 15 Jun 2005 22:45 GMT

There is no one-size-fits-all method. If WordMail is not the editor, then in Outlook 2002/3, you can read the default account name from the Standard toolbar. (See http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=889.) The name of the default account is probably also buried in the Windows registry, under the mail profile settings (and in a totally different place for Outlook 2000 in IMO mode), but it would take a little lab work with Regmon or a registry comparison tool to discover where.

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Dmitry Streblechenko - 16 Jun 2005 18:39 GMT

See the newly documented IOlkAccountManager interface:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/olintapi/html/o
liaIOlkAccountManager_HV01155206.asp
You can also play with it in OutlookSpy (click Misc | IOlkAccountManager).

You won't be able to use IOlkAccountManager in VBA though...

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

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