Accounts

This section provides sample tasks that involve email accounts. Examples of email accounts are Microsoft Exchange Server, Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accounts. An account for the current profile is represented by an Account object.

Topic Description
Get account information Takes as an input argument a trusted Microsoft Outlook Application object, and uses the Account object to display the details of each account that is available for the current Outlook profile.
Create a sendable item for a specific account based on the current folder Contains two code examples that show how to create a sendable email item and meeting request, and then send them by using a specific account that is based on the current folder.
Get the account for a folder Gets the account that is associated with a folder in the current session.
Get information about multiple accounts Obtains and displays miscellaneous information about each account in the current profile.
Send a mail item by using a Hotmail account Uses the SendUsingAccount property to send a mail item by using a Windows Live Hotmail account.

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