Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Outlook Email using VBA (Updated)
This is an update to the code supplied here. The previous article enabled you to send an email though Outlook using early binding. The code below uses late binding, this means you do not need to worry about Outlook versions.
As before it includes the subject and message body fields as well as the To, Cc and Bcc fields within a standard email format.
The code could easily be changed to loop through arrays or collections of values for many of these fields.
Private Sub SendOutlookEmail()
'-- Creates and sends a new e-mail message with Outlook --
' These are members of the referenced object model which _
are unavailable due to late binding. They have been _
replaced with the numbers they represent
Const olMailItem As Integer = 0
Const olTo As Integer = 1
Const olCc As Integer = 2
Dim oOutlook As Object 'Outlook Application
Dim oMailMsg As Object 'Outlook MailItem
Dim oRecipient As Object 'Outlook Recipient
Dim oRecipType As Object 'Outlook Recipient Type
On Error GoTo ErrTrap
' Create the Outlook session
Set oOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
' Create the message
Set oMailMsg = oOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With oMailMsg
' Request a receipt ?
.ReadReceiptRequested = False
' Keep copy in 'Sent Items' ?
.DeleteAfterSubmit = False
' Your email address or 'team mailbox' address
.SentOnBehalfOfName = "YourEmail@Address.com"
' Message subject
.Subject = "Subject Here"
' Add message body
.Body = "Email Message Here"
'Add 'To' recipient(s)
Set oRecipient = .Recipients.Add _
("SomeoneElses@EmailAddress.com; AnotherPerson@Email.com")
oRecipient.Type = olTo
'Add another 'To' recipient
Set oRecipient = .Recipients.Add _
("SomeoneElses@EmailAddress.com")
oRecipient.Type = olTo
' Add 'Cc' recipient(s)
Set oRecipient = .Recipients.Add _
("SomeoneElses@EmailAddress.com")
oRecipient.Type = olCc
' Loop through an array to attach files
For l = 0 To UBound(varFile)
If Not IsEmpty(varFile(l)) Then
.Attachments.Add varFile(l)
End If
Next l
' Display to user or Send email
'.Send
.Display
End With
ErrTrap:
Set oOutlook = Nothing
Set oMailMsg = Nothing
Set oRecipient = Nothing
Set oRecipType = Nothing
Select Case Err.Number
Case Is = 0
' All okay, continue
Case Is = -284147707
MsgBox "You have exceeded the storage limit on your mailbox. " _
& "Delete some mail from your mailbox or contact your " _
& "system administrator to adjust your storage limit." _
, vbInformation, "Error Message"
Case Else
MsgBox "An error has occured:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf _
& Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description, "OutlookEmailFunction"
End Select
End Sub
As always, if you have any questions do let us know via the comments section.
As before it includes the subject and message body fields as well as the To, Cc and Bcc fields within a standard email format.
The code could easily be changed to loop through arrays or collections of values for many of these fields.
Private Sub SendOutlookEmail()
'-- Creates and sends a new e-mail message with Outlook --
' These are members of the referenced object model which _
are unavailable due to late binding. They have been _
replaced with the numbers they represent
Const olMailItem As Integer = 0
Const olTo As Integer = 1
Const olCc As Integer = 2
Dim oOutlook As Object 'Outlook Application
Dim oMailMsg As Object 'Outlook MailItem
Dim oRecipient As Object 'Outlook Recipient
Dim oRecipType As Object 'Outlook Recipient Type
On Error GoTo ErrTrap
' Create the Outlook session
Set oOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
' Create the message
Set oMailMsg = oOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With oMailMsg
' Request a receipt ?
.ReadReceiptRequested = False
' Keep copy in 'Sent Items' ?
.DeleteAfterSubmit = False
' Your email address or 'team mailbox' address
.SentOnBehalfOfName = "YourEmail@Address.com"
' Message subject
.Subject = "Subject Here"
' Add message body
.Body = "Email Message Here"
'Add 'To' recipient(s)
Set oRecipient = .Recipients.Add _
("SomeoneElses@EmailAddress.com; AnotherPerson@Email.com")
oRecipient.Type = olTo
'Add another 'To' recipient
Set oRecipient = .Recipients.Add _
("SomeoneElses@EmailAddress.com")
oRecipient.Type = olTo
' Add 'Cc' recipient(s)
Set oRecipient = .Recipients.Add _
("SomeoneElses@EmailAddress.com")
oRecipient.Type = olCc
' Loop through an array to attach files
For l = 0 To UBound(varFile)
If Not IsEmpty(varFile(l)) Then
.Attachments.Add varFile(l)
End If
Next l
' Display to user or Send email
'.Send
.Display
End With
ErrTrap:
Set oOutlook = Nothing
Set oMailMsg = Nothing
Set oRecipient = Nothing
Set oRecipType = Nothing
Select Case Err.Number
Case Is = 0
' All okay, continue
Case Is = -284147707
MsgBox "You have exceeded the storage limit on your mailbox. " _
& "Delete some mail from your mailbox or contact your " _
& "system administrator to adjust your storage limit." _
, vbInformation, "Error Message"
Case Else
MsgBox "An error has occured:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf _
& Err.Number & " - " & Err.Description, "OutlookEmailFunction"
End Select
End Sub
As always, if you have any questions do let us know via the comments section.
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Lotus Notes Email using VBA
The code I’m sharing with you today will enable you to send an email using VBA through Lotus Notes. It uses late binding so you do not need to use references to Lotus Notes, which in turn means you do not need to worry about your users Lotus Notes version. I say this, though in practise this may not always be the case. Lotus Notes is often rather frustrating, as many users will testify :)
As well as the subject and message body the routine allows you to specify the To, Cc and Bcc fields within a standard email format.
The example below shows the code to attach a single file. This could easily be amended to loop through an array or collection of file addresses.
Sub SendAnEmailViaLotusNotes()Dim WS As Object
Dim Session As Object
Dim DB As Object
Dim uiDB As Object
Dim NotesAttach As Object
Dim NotesDoc As Object
Dim RichTextBody As Object
Dim RichTextAttachment As Object
Dim StyleBold As Object
Dim StyleNorm As Object
Dim StyleUnderline As Object
Dim StyleFont10 As Object
Dim Server As String
Dim MailFile As String
Dim TheUser As String
Dim UserSig As String
Dim strEmailTo As String ' email To field
Dim strEmailCc As String ' email Cc field
Dim strEmailBcc As String ' email Bcc field
Dim strEmailSbj As String ' email Subject
Dim strEmailBdy As String ' email Body (message text)
Dim strEmailAtt As String ' email attachment
Application.DisplayAlerts = False ' turn off Excel alerts
On Error GoTo ErrorMsg ' on error goto ErrorMsg section...
' --- Set-up connection to Lotus Notes and Create Email object
Set WS = CreateObject("Notes.NotesUIWorkspace")
Set Session = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")
TheUser = Session.UserName
UserSig = Session.CommonUserName
Server = Session.GetEnvironmentString("MailServer", True)
MailFile = Session.GetEnvironmentString("MailFile", True)
Set DB = Session.GetDatabase(Server, MailFile)
Set uiDB = WS.CURRENTDATABASE
Set NotesDoc = DB.CreateDocument
Set RichTextBody = NotesDoc.CreateRichTextItem("Body")
' --- Set-up dist list, message and attachments
strEmailTo = ""
strEmailCc = ""
strEmailBcc = ""
strEmailSbj = ""
strEmailBdy = ""
strEmailAtt = ""
NotesDoc.SendTo = strEmailTo ' To...
NotesDoc.CopyTo = strEmailCc ' Cc...
NotesDoc.BlindCopyTo = strEmailBcc ' Bcc...
NotesDoc.Subject = strEmailSbj ' The subject
NotesDoc.Body = strEmailBdy ' Any text to be in the email
' Attach a file
If strEmailAtt <> "" Then
Set RichTextAttachment = NotesDoc.CreateRichTextItem("Attachment")
Set NotesAttach = RichTextAttachment.EmbedObject(1454, "", strEmailAtt)
End If
' --- Send the email / save the message in 'Sent' items
' False would not save the sent email to the sent items folder
NotesDoc.SAVEMESSAGEONSEND = True
' Not sure why, but false send the eamil ?
NotesDoc.SEND False
' --- Close connection to free memory
Set Session = Nothing
Set DB = Nothing
Set NotesAttach = Nothing
Set NotesDoc = Nothing
Set WS = Nothing
' Turn on Excel alerts
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Exit Sub
' --- if an error occurs display a message... then exit the macro
ErrorMsg:
If Err.Number = 7225 Then
MsgBox "The file " & strEmailAtt & " cannot be found in the specified location", vbOKOnly, "Error"
Else
MsgBox Err.Number & Err.Description
End If
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
As always, if you have any questions do let us know via the comments section.
Access, Email, Excel, Lotus Notes, VBA
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