Automate Outlook Send Using

[Ken Morton]

I am working on a project in Office 2000 Pro which uses Access generate
HTML email bodies from stored data and sends the emails by automating
Outlook. The mails are sent as you might expect by using the 'Send' method
of the 'MailItem' object.

This works OK but can only use the default Account. I would like to
Automate the equivalent of 'Send Using' and use a different account. Is
there any way I can do this, I would be grateful for any help.

Cheers
Ken

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

The Outlook Object Model does not make the email account or 'From name'
available. To do this in your code, you will need to incorporate one of
the third-party add-ins:

ACG Soft's PDF and Mail class library at:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg/ACGPDF.htm

or Redemption at:

http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/

hth,

 

[Ken Morton]

Thanks for the the Information, I thought it might not be possible. I shall
think on whether it is worth getting the add-ins.
Ken

 

[Karen Parker]

Hi Ken,

If you are only wanting the From address to appear as the other account,
you may want to consider using CDOSYS to send the messages. CDOSYS is
great because it will not trigger the Security Update warnings. I realize
that you are currently using Office 2000. If you have not installed SP2
and plan on upgrading (to SP2 or anything higher), using the Outlook object
model will become a problem due to the required Security Update as part of
the install. If you want to have a record of the message, you will need to
add yourself to the recipients.

Check out the following:
HOWTO: Send HTML Mail with CDO for Win 2000 and Remote SMTP Serv (286431)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q286431

HOWTO: Send HTML Mail with CDO for Win 2000 and Local Pickup Dir (286430)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q286430


I hope the information that I provided here has been helpful to you.

Karen Parker
Microsoft, Developer Support Engineer - Windows Messaging / Outlook

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