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MailItem Object

Office 2007

Represents a mail message in an Inbox folder.

Remarks

Use the CreateItem method to create a MailItem object that represents a new mail message.

Use Items (

index), where index is the index number of a mail message or a value used to match the default property of a message, to return a single MailItem object from an Inbox folder.

Example

The following example creates and displays a new mail message.

Visual Basic for Applications
`Set myItem = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem) myItem.Display`

The following example sets the current folder as the Inbox and displays the second mail message in the folder.

Visual Basic for Applications
`Set myNamespace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set myFolder = myNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox) myFolder.Display Set myItem = myFolder.Items(2) myItem.Display`