Create Outlook mail

[yeti]

Hello all

I need to find a way of automating the creation of an Outlook mail message (not Express) - but not send it. Instead, the mail message just needs to be displayed on-screen ready for the user. I need to be able to set the destination, subject and (most importantly) the body of the message (HTML).

Ideally the script would force Outlook to launch (if not already running) and then display the new mail message, completed and ready for further modification by the user before sending.

I've tried using Mailto but this does not allow me to choose the fonts in the body of the new message. I've also tried using CDO but am not getting the results I need.

Can anyone help?

Andrew

 

[PHV]

And what have you so far ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[sdraper]

After you have created the mail object, use the display method rather than the send method.

dim olApp,olMail
 Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
 Set olMail = olApp.CreateItem(MailItem)
 olMail.Display
 'cleanup
 set olApp = nothing
 set olMail = nothing

this might work


Sam