Sending email through MS Access VBA / Outlook, choosing sending profile

Question

I am looking at this snippet of code from another question here (MS Access VBA): https://stackoverflow.com/a/17975507/1085885

Right now this code only works when I r

Answer 1

Try it this way.

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim bStarted As Boolean
Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application
Dim oItem As Outlook.MailItem

On Error Resume Next


'Get Outlook if it's running
Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
If Err <> 0 Then
    'Outlook wasn't running, start it from code
    Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    bStarted = True
End If

'Create a new mailitem
Set oItem = oOutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)

With oItem
    'Set the recipient for the new email
   .To = "receiver@gmail.com"

    .Send
End With

If bStarted Then
'    'If we started Outlook from code, then close it
    oOutlookApp.Quit
End If

'Clean up
Set oItem = Nothing
Set oOutlookApp = Nothing



End Sub