How to tell if a selected item is a mailtem OL2003

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I have some code that acts on the bodytext of a selected item in an Explorer window. It works really well when the selected item is a MailItem but is dying an ugly death on an email Bounce which I presume is not strictly a MailItem – but rather some sort of container of the real message.

How do I precheck what type of entity the item within the explorer selection really is?

The relevant code is
DIm myitem as MailItem
Set myItem = myExplorer.Selection.Item(1)

theirBody = myItem.Body

and it dies on this kind of message

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: Blah Blah Rhubarb
Sent: 30/03/2007 4:03 a.m.

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

a@b.c on 30/03/2007 4:03 a.m.
There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient’s email server. Please contact your system administrator.
<mail.domainname.somewhere #5.5.0 smtp;550 Invalid recipient: >

Any light you could shed would be much appreciated. A secondary question is “what kind of message” is one of these, and how would we identify the original message that needed to be re-sent?

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Use item.Class, the VBA Help defines all the OlObjectClass types:

If myExplorer.Selection.Item(1).Class = olMail Then

(You could also use Typename.) Your code is running into olReport Items, a separate Class from Mail Items.

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That sorted that out – I appreciate the wisdom

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