Auto Reply in Outlook Add-in using VBA code example

Auto Reply

Feature helps user to set automatic reply to the sender when you are away from your outlook mailbox. Conceptually, auto reply instructions saved on the Outlook Exchange Server having (Start Date/time, End Date/time a default message).

Prerequisites

Outlook redemption library which can be downloaded from here.

Code example

Sub SetAutoReply(oSDate As Date, oEDate As Date)
Dim oStartDate As Date
Dim oEndDate As Date
Set objrdo = CreateObject("Redemption.objRdoSession")

'Set Start date
oStartDate = oSDate
'Set End Date
oEndDate = oEDate

'Enable session
Session.Logon
objrdo.MAPIOBJECT = Application.Session.MAPIOBJECT
objrdo.Credentials.Add "outlook.office365.com", "myemail@domain.com", "password"

'Iterate each store
Dim Store As Object
For Each Store In objrdo.Stores
    If (Store.StoreKind = skPrimaryExchangeMailbox) Then
        Debug.Print Store.Name
            If Store.Name = "myemail@outlook.com" Then
        GoTo NextStore
        End If
        'Instantiate out of office assistant object
        Dim oOutOfAssistant As Object
        Set oOutOfAssistant = Store.OutOfOfficeAssistant
        'Configure
        With oOutOfAssistant
            .OutOfOffice = True
            .BeginUpdate
            .StartTime = oStartDate + #9:00:00 AM#
            .EndTime = oEndDate + #9:00:00 PM#
            .State = 2
            .ExternalAudience = 2
            'Set message default body
            .OutOfOfficeTextInternal = "<html><body>I am out of the office currently and will return on " & Format(oOutOfAssistant.EndTime, "dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy at hh:mm AM/PM") & "." & _
              "</body></html>"
            .OutOfOfficeTextExternal = "<html><body>I am out of the office currently and will return on " & Format(oOutOfAssistant.EndTime, "dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy at hh:mm AM/PM") & "." & _
              "</body></html>"
            .EndUpdate
        End With
    End If
NextStore:
Next Store

'CleanUp
If Not objrdo Is Nothing Then
    Set objrdo = Nothing
End If
If Not Store Is Nothing Then
    Set Store = Nothing
End If
If Not oOutOfAssistant Is Nothing Then
    Set oOutOfAssistant = Nothing
End If
End Sub

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