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Send Outlook mail in text/html format 1

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FancyPrairie

FancyPrairie

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How do I send a message that consists of html code so that outlook will interpret the html code rather than displaying the code itself (i.e. "content-type: text/html" rather than "content-type: text"). (Note that in my application, sending it as an attachment won't work.) Below is the code I'm using:

Dim objOutlk
Dim objMail
Dim strMsg
Const olMailItem = 0

Set objOutlk = createobject("Outlook.Application")
Set objMail = objOutlk.createitem(olMailItem)

objMail.To = "somebody"
objMail.subject = "This is my subject line"
objMail.body = &quot;<html><head></head><body>Hello world</body></html>&quot;
objMail.send
objMail = nothing
Set objOutlk = nothing
 
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You sound like you already have your answer, you're just not using it. :)

Set oOutlook = CreateObject(&quot;Outlook.Application&quot;)
Set oMail = oOutlook.CreateItem(0)
oMail.To = &quot;you&quot;
omail.subject = &quot;subject&quot;
oMail.HTMLBody = &quot;<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;&quot;Content-Type&quot;&quot; CONTENT=&quot;&quot;text/html;charset=Windows-1252&quot;&quot;><title>Hello</title></head><body><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;&quot;VBScript&quot;&quot;>Sub Sucker()Msgbox &quot;&quot;You are so gullable!&quot;&quot;,0,&quot;&quot;Sucker&quot;&quot;End Sub</SCRIPT><input type=&quot;&quot;button&quot;&quot; id=&quot;&quot;Sucker&quot;&quot; name=&quot;&quot;Sucker&quot;&quot; value=&quot;&quot;Click Me!&quot;&quot; onclick=&quot;&quot;Sucker&quot;&quot;></form></body></html>&quot;
oMail.Send
Set oMail = Nothing
Set oOutlook = Nothing Jon Hawkins
 
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Thanks. I see my mistake. Instead of using the body property (oMail.Body) I should have used the HTMLBody property (oMail.HTMLBody).
 
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Hi Jon,

Need some help. The above code works fine in older versions of Outlook. But in Outlook 2000, it seems to be giving me a pop-up menu telling me that an application is trying to automatically send an email and asking me click yes/no/cancel - and without clicking the email doesn't go. Please help me. Thanks.
 
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Pradipto - see faq184-1156

You can effectively use the code above, if you do NOT apply SP2 to Outlook 2K. Jon Hawkins
 
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hi, the example is only applied to single line of html/text codes. What is the sollution if i would like to insert mulitple lines of html/text codes (eg, html codes created at M'soft Frontpage) ? I found error when paste it to oMail.HTMLBody since my html/text files is very big and consist of spaces, &quot;, ....
 
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You'll need to format your HTML code especially if it contains double quotes (&quot;). You can either replace these with this(&quot;&quot;), as shown in the example above(I've never tried this myself) or use single quotes('). Also FrontPage puts numbers in quotes (eg size=&quot;10&quot;) you can remove the quotes entirely from numbers except where they are prcentages (eg &quot;100%&quot;), you'll need to leave the quotes in there.
Hope this helps
 
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