create new mail item from current item

[lindstrom]

Greetings
How can I create a new mail item from the active inspector current item
Thank you,

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Please provide more details on what you want to do. In other words, what does
the current item have to do with the new item you want to create?

 

[lindstrom]

Sue
Many thanks for your reply
What I'm actually trying to do is to come up with a routine that will forward a mail item to a friend without the "FWD: " in the subject and without the "From,Sent,To,Subject" lines in the message
One suggestion that I received was to create a new mail item from the current mail item and I've been trying to do that, but so far I've been unsccessful
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[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

So you essentially want to resend the item, so that the friend sees it as
coming from you? Outlook has no programmatic way to do that directly. If you
just make a copy of the item (with the MailItem.Copy method), and try to
address and send that, you may get an error that you can't send on behalf of
the original sender. Another approach would be to use SaveAs to save the item
as an .msg file, then use CreateItemFromTemplate to create a new item from
that saved original.

 

[lindstrom]

Sue
I'll try those suggestions and see what happens
Your assistance is greatly appreciated
DL