MailItem.Recipients Property

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Outlook Developer Reference

Returns a Recipients collection that represents all the recipients for the Outlook item. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.Recipients

expression   A variable that represents a MailItem object.

Remarks

A recipient can be specified by a string representing the recipient's display name, alias, or full SMTP e-mail address.

Example

This Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example creates a new e-mail message, uses the Add method to add "Dan Wilson" as a To recipient, and displays the message.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub CreateStatusReportToBoss()
    Dim myItem As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim myRecipient As Outlook.Recipient
    
    Set myItem = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    Set myRecipient = myItem.Recipients.Add("Dan Wilson")
    myItem.Subject = "Status Report"
    myItem.Display
End Sub

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