Sending email alert from excel to Outlook - excel

Question

I am trying to send a test mail from excel to Outlook, However I am getting error message : Run Time Error 287 in the following line :
OutMail.Send
Please find below my code:
Sub sendds()
Dim OutMail As MailItem
Dim outlookapp As Outlook.Application
Dim myInspector As Outlook.Inspector
Set outlookapp = CreateObject("Outlook.application")
Set OutMail = outlookapp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With OutMail
.To = "email address"
.Subject = "test mail"
.Body = "Hi this is test email"
OutMail.Send 'Getting error on this line
End With
Set outlookapp = Nothing
Set OutMail = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 1

That is because you have incorrect email or email address format should be email#email.com or for testing purpose use .Display
Also change it to just .Send
With OutMail
.To = "email#address.com"
.Subject = "test"
.Body = "Hi this is test email"
.Send
End With
**For workaround **
With olMail
.To = "email"
.CC = ""
.BCC = ""
.Subject = ""
.Display
.Send
End With

Answer 2

try the below:
Public Sub emailUsFeature()
Set outApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set outMail = outApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With outMail
.To = "abc#xyz.com; def#xyz.com"
.CC = "ghi#xyz.com"
.BCC = "jkl#xyz.com"
.Subject = "This is the subject."
End With
outMail.display
End Sub

Answer 3

Based on the comment "when I am using outMail.display it displays the email which I want to send but I actually want to send the email" the code is too fast. It would likely as well work if you stepped through with F8.
You could use Excel's Wait to delay the send.
This should as well work for all applications and it would be the minimum waiting period.
Sub sendds_ErrorHandlerWait()
Dim OutMail As MailItem
Dim outlookapp As Outlook.Application
Dim myInspector As Outlook.Inspector
Set outlookapp = CreateObject("Outlook.application")
Set OutMail = outlookapp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With OutMail
.To = "email address"
.Subject = "test mail"
.body = "Hi this is test email"
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
' Err.Raise 287 ' for testing
' Err.Raise 1 ' for testing
.Send
On Error GoTo 0
End With
ExitRoutine:
Set outlookapp = Nothing
Set OutMail = Nothing
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
Select Case Err
Case 287
DoEvents ' To accept clicks and to allow escaping if Outlook never opens
Debug.Print " <Ctrl> + <Break> to escape"
Resume
Case Else
On Error GoTo 0
' Break on other lines with an error
Resume
End Select
End Sub
It appears your Outlook setup requires a display. If there is no fix for that situation, you may be able to use an invisible display.
Sub sendds_InspectorRatherThanDisplay()
Dim OutMail As mailItem
Dim outlookapp As Outlook.Application
Dim myInspector As Outlook.Inspector
Set outlookapp = CreateObject("Outlook.application")
Set OutMail = outlookapp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With OutMail
.To = "email address"
.Subject = "test mail"
.body = "Hi this is test email"
Set myInspector = .GetInspector
.Send
End With
ExitRoutine:
Set outlookapp = Nothing
Set OutMail = Nothing
Set myInspector = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 4

I am always adding in DoEvents and Application.Wait 1 to do this.
I usually don't display the email (and it is commented out here) so it just sends in the background. Works for me every time.
You obviously have to feed this sub from another with the arguments. An example of that is also here. (for example you could have the email address, file name etc. in each row and send an email dynamically for each row)
Sub LoopThroughTable()
For i = 2 To Sheet1.Cells(Sheet1.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
email_to = Sheet1.Cells(i, 4).Value
email_subject = Sheet1.Cells(i, 3).Value
email_body = Sheet1.Cells(i, 8).Value
file_path = Sheet1.Cells(i, 2).Value & Sheet1.Cells(i, 3).Value
SendOutlookMessage email_to, email_subject, file_path, email_body
Next i
End Sub
Sub SendOutlookMessage(ByVal email_to As String, ByVal email_subject As String, ByVal file_path As String, ByVal email_body As String)
emailTo = email_to
emailSub = email_subject
FullPath = file_path
HTMLBODY = email_body
DoEvents
Application.Wait 1
Dim olApp As Object
Dim olMail As Object
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olMail = olApp.CreateItem(0)
With olMail
.to = emailTo
.Subject = emailSub
.Attachments.Add (FullPath)
.HTMLBODY = HTMLBODY
DoEvents
'.Display
Application.Wait 1
.Send
End With
Application.Wait 1
Set olMail = Nothing
Set olApp = Nothing
End Sub
Hope that helps.