Get the message opening date in the outlook email

[Memo]

Hi,
I wander for the possibility to capture the opening date once the user open
a message from the outlook? Is there a way to do it by code?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Yes, that's possible. In VBA and VBScript, the Now() function returns the
current date/time. Exactly what you do with it depends on the details of
your scenario that you haven't shared with us yet.

 

[Memo]

Thank you very much; what I’m trying to do is to track when each user has
been received a particular e-mail and store that date in external container
(Database, SharePoint list …) this functionality is needed for auditing kind
of thing.

so the system will start sending an e-mails for several users and request
from them to start taking an action according to it and these actions must be
monitored by an auditors but in the same time the auditors do need to know if
the users read there e-mails or not

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

It could be done with either an add-in running on each user's machine or
with a custom message form published to the Organizational Forms library on
the company's Exchange server or to each user's Personal Forms library.

But before you start developing the spec for your application, you might
want to consider whether the built-in read receipt mechanism in Outlook
might be sufficient for your scenario.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Memo]

Thank you for your replay, actually the receipt it might be going to be
perfect if the user won’t be able to cancel it by clicking on don’t sent a
receipt! How can I achieve the add-in or the publishing solution? What is the
deference’s?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

A published form is suitable only if your scenario extends only to people in
your own organization *and* if you can meet the publishing requirement I
mentioned earlier. Information on creating published custom forms and
Outlook add-ins is available on MSDN and at the Outlookcode.com web site.
It's not something that can be covered in a few sentences of a Usenet post.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54