setting 'replied to' status (XP SP2)

[ralphad]

Does anyone know if there is a way to set the 'replied to' status on a message (so it shows the little purple arrow on the mail icon)?

Sometimes I have to reply to mails using web based mail in a remote location, but when i return to my home PC I want to mark these mails as 'replied to' so they appear just like mails I have replied to using Outlook on my home PC.

Many thanks,

[unkamunka]

AFAIK the way that Outlook - by design - expects you to deal with such things is by use of the Follow Up Flag feature. This, of course, is far more labour-intensive. One of our habitual Outlook coders may be able to come up with some VBA code for you to automate moving to such a set-up.

Alternatively, it may be possible to reset the status using VBA code but I have not yet checked whether the Object Model available for coding permits that.

[jscher2000]

The regular Outlook Object Model that you can tweak with VBA doesn't provide access to those annotations. But there is a mysterious world of Extended MAPI programming that probably has the answer for you. Of course, the question then becomes, is it important enough to dive into those deep waters?

[JohnBF]

See <!post=this,309516>this<!/post> related thread on a similar Property and especially HansV's post for how to get to those types of Properties.

[ralphad]

Wow, it looks like I have to get my fingers deep into a very messy VBA pie in order to do this. I think I might just use the flags instead! Thanks for your responses guys.