create email in OUTLOOK

[sbrady]

how do you set up an email in OUTLOOK, subject, content, recipients

[water]

Please have a look at my OutlookEX UDF. Function _OL_Wrapper_SendMail does all you need.

For download please see my signature.

Edited September 26, 2012 by water

[sbrady]

cant find your signature?? *&^%$#@

[water]

My signature is the lower part of my post starting with "UDFs:"

[sbrady]

ding ding ding ding........we have a winner......thanks.

[water]

Great

If you need to add more properties to the mail than _OL_Wrapper_SendMail accepts as parameters you need to call all functions yourself which have been wrapped by _OL_Wrapper_SendMail.

[sbrady]

My signature is the lower part of my post starting with "UDFs:"

got 'em.......the whole thing is commented out, how do I know what line to take off those ";" characters.........thanks

[water]

What do you mean by the "the whole thing is commented out"? Can you post the relevant part of the code you talk about?

[sbrady]

am I wrong........there is a semi-colon at the start of EVERY LINE but 1. doesnt that make that line a comment , not functional code

[water]

You don't have to include the OutlookEX UDF you downloaded from my signature into your script.

Save it in the same folder where your script is. Check the _OL_Wrapper_SendMail.au3 example script how to use the _OL_Wrapper_SendMail function to send a mail.

[BrewManNH]

BTW, the part you have posted is the header of the actual function, not the function itself.

[sbrady]

I am so confused...........

[water]

What exactly confuses you?

[Colyn1337]

I am so confused...........

Honestly, you'll have an easier time doing what you want with COM... here's how...

$objOutlook = ObjCreate("Outlook.Application")
$OutlookMailItem = $objOutlook.CreateItem($olMailItem)
; $OutlookMailItem.To = ""
$OutlookMailItem.Subject = "Script!"
$OutlookMailItem.HTMLBody = ("say whatever you want here to appear in the body.")
;$OutlookMailItem.Attachments.Add(whateverfile here)
$OutlookMailItem.Display

there's a lot more you can do, but this will get you started

[water]

Colyn1337,

please have a look at the OutlookEX we are talking about in this thread and you will see that it exactly does it this way...

[sbrady]

colyn.........didnt work. Is there a way to create an email in OUTLOOK with AutoIT......I'm beginning to wonder.

[sbrady]

here is the Applescript way

tell application "Mail"

set bodyvar to "put body text here" as international text -- this is the body of the email

set recipientName to "Michael Jackson" as international text

set recipientAddress to "michael.jackson@gmail.com"

set subjectvar to "subject" as international text -- this is the subject line

make new outgoing message

set new_mssg to the result

set sender of new_mssg to "Michael Jackson <michael.jackson@gmail.com>"

set subject of new_mssg to subjectvar

set content of new_mssg to bodyvar

tell new_mssg to make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:recipientName, address:recipientAddress}

set visible of new_mssg to true

end tell

[water]

With my OutlookEX UDF it's quite simple:

#include <OutlookEX.au3>

Global $oOutlook = _OL_Open()
Global $bodyvar = "put body text here"
Global $recipientAddress = "michael.jackson@gmail.com"
Global $subjectvar = "subject"
_OL_Wrapper_SendMail($oOutlook, $recipientAddress, "", "", $subjectvar, $bodyvar)
If @error <> 0 Then Exit MsgBox(16, "OutlookEX UDF: _OutlookSendMail Wrapper Script", "Error sending mail. @error = " & @error & ", @extended: " & @extended)
MsgBox(64, "OutlookEX UDF: _OutlookSendMail Wrapper Script", "Mail successfully sent to '" & $recipientAddress & "'!")

[Colyn1337]

colyn.........didnt work. Is there a way to create an email in OUTLOOK with AutoIT......I'm beginning to wonder.

my bad, one small error in the code I gave you...

You have to declare the $olMailItem before running the script, and it's value must be 0

so....... full code

Local $olMailItem = 0

$objOutlook = ObjCreate("Outlook.Application")
$OutlookMailItem = $objOutlook.CreateItem($olMailItem)
; $OutlookMailItem.To = ""
$OutlookMailItem.Subject = "Script!"
$OutlookMailItem.HTMLBody = ("say whatever you want here to appear in the body.")
;$OutlookMailItem.Attachments.Add(whateverfile here)
$OutlookMailItem.Display
Exit

Edited September 26, 2012 by Colyn1337

[sbrady]

colyn........still not working. I would expect to see Outlook become the front app, the email window pop to the front..............but nothing happens.