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Old April 28th, 2004, 02:36 AM
Sam4X5
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Default How do I change email address of sender when I mail out of word?

When I mail out of Word to a mail recepient one of the email addresses on my ISP list of email addresses appears next to my name and is read by the recepient. I want another email address on my ISP list to appear next to my name when mailing documents out of Word. How can I make this switch?
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Old April 28th, 2004, 04:07 AM
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default How do I change email address of sender when I mail out of word?

This was posted recently

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I did some investigating and discovered a .NET method (framework 1.1) that
bypasses Outlook altogether, as long as you can know the address of your
SMTP server. Takes one reference and two lines of code. Sweet.

'First add a reference to System.Web

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "SMTP Server Name"

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(from:="SteveLang@tra sh.net",
", subject:="Test", messagetext:="This be the
body.")

Steve



"Steve Lang" wrote in message
...
hi Brian,

Creating a VB application or - even better - customizing Word to do this
(notwithstanding the possible caveat noted below) is relatively simple.
Create a reference to the Outlook object model and add some code of this
natu

Set myOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNameSpace = myOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myItem = myOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With myItem
.To = strTo 'this would be your judge e-mail address
.Subject = strDocName 'the name of the file to attach
.Body = strMsg 'whatever you want it to be
.Attachments.Add strDocPath & strDocName 'the full name and

path
to the document
.Send
End With
Set myOutlook = Nothing
Set myNameSpace = Nothing
Set myItem = Nothing

The watching aspect can be handled with a timer control and a directory
reference in VB or you could have the e-mail automatically be sent when

the
document is closed. Then when the Outlook warning appears, you would just
need to click "Yes" when you are closing the file.


***CAVEAT***
AFAIK, each time an outside application touches Outlook to generate an
e-mail, the user needs to authenticate that action to be a valid one. This
was put into effect to reduce the ability of worms and viruses to

propagate
themselves silently through a user's address book. I don't believe this

can
be worked around.

HTH and have a great day!

Steve
--
Stephen Lang
Legislative Counsel Bureau
Carson City, NV
GMT+8
slang at lcb dot state dot nv dot us



"BSimpson" bsimpson[(at)]ch13cleve[(DOT)]com wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a solution to a kinda odd Word document-handling

problem.

I work in a lawfirm that generates large amounts of documents that are

filed
to 1 of 3 different judges for further handling by their staff.

Any given document will go to 1 judge *only* - based upon which court

the
case is filed in.

The generation of the documents is NOT the issue.

The problem is, I have to email them to the appropriate judge with only

ONE
document attached to each email. When dealing with only a couple of
documents, this isn't a problem, but I generate dozens at a time, and

doing
the "right-click, send-to, mail recipient, type the address or select

it
from the address book, Enter" routine gets to be verrrrrrry tedious and

is
a tremendous waste of time.

If it'd help, I *can* move the individual documents to separate folders,

1
for each judge.

The solution could be one of several different ideas:

1. A stand-alone program that would "watch" the specific folder/s for
documents being moved into them, and would then automatically send each
document attached to an individual email (remember: 1-at-a-time), and
preferably move the document files to a "storage" folder after

processing,
or

2. An Outlook 2000 add-in that'd do the same thing, or

3. A Word 2000 macro (or add-in??) that'd do the same thing.

The first two methods would, I'm guessing, be faster, as Word would not

even
need to be running, whereas the 3rd method would (I'm guessing again)

entail
Word stepping through the folder/s containing the to-be-mailed items one

at
a time, emulating the "file, send to, mail recipient, get address from

the
Outlook address book - or maybe from an embedded Word merge field?, and

hit
Enter" routine.

There's are constraints that issue upon any method of doing this:
1. The document *must* be an attachment - not inline text,
2. The subject line of the message *must* be the filename of the

attached
document, and
3. There can only be 1 document attached to each message

I've looked at the examples on the MSVP site, and nothing there will do

what
I need, sad to say.

Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated.

Brian.






Unquote
--
Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Sam4X5" wrote in message
...
When I mail out of Word to a mail recepient one of the email addresses on

my ISP list of email addresses appears next to my name and is read by the
recepient. I want another email address on my ISP list to appear next to my
name when mailing documents out of Word. How can I make this switch?

 




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