What is the difference between MailItem.Submitted and MailItem.Sent

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What is the difference between MailItem.Submitted and MailItem.Sent
 
nwein




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Not really sure what's the difference. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.outlook.mailitem_properties(v=office.14).aspx states that
Sent Returns a Boolean (bool in C#) value that indicates if a message has been sent. Read-only. (Inherited from _MailItem.)
Submitted Returns a Boolean (bool in C#) value that is True if the item has been submitted. Read-only. (Inherited from _MailItem.)

How do these differ from each other?
Posted 21 Jan, 2015 12:45:35 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Nir,

Here's a citation from http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=2&messageid=25782:


An unsent message, however, will have both Submitted and Sent = False. A sent message that has not yet spooled to the transport provider would have Submitted = True and Sent = False.



Andrei Smolin
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Posted 22 Jan, 2015 04:25:04 Top
nwein




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Thanks, much clearer now (sure wish Microsoft would have described it better on their documentations...)
Posted 22 Jan, 2015 10:19:49 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Nir,

Yes, the documentation has many problems. Still, I think it is definitely among the best documentations they ever wrote. I may be biased though.


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 23 Jan, 2015 03:43:14 Top