Gmail from MS Access, VBA, Excel, Word…

"Send a Secret Email"

Escape From Outlook

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Escape From Outlook

Microsoft tightly combine their applications together however sometimes it’s nice to escape from Microsoft Products and use others. Here I demonstrate how you can use Google Mail to send out an e-mail from an Internet connected PC, and you can also do this covertly!

This Example is From:

Windows® XP Under the Hood, Pg. 266 Chapter 6 Messaging and Faxing ObjectsExtract

This basic example sends a simple, no-frills text message every time the script is run: Example File: script0603.vbs As you can see, the original file was a VBScript file; I have converted this to VBA.

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Sending an Attachment:-

Alan Asked:-

If I wanted to take it to the next level and add an attachment to the Build a Message section of the code. Under oMsg, what code would I add to have it grab a report or query and email it as an attachment.

If I wanted to add an attachment:

Add a line after “.textBody” and before “End With” like so:

.textBody = “From Keyed in Email Address”
.AddAttachment “H:\ADrive\YourFileName.txt”
End With

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How to send email using Gmail via Excel VBA

Gmail from Excel

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This YouTube “How to send email using Gmail via Excel VBA” from Dinesh Kumar Takyar demonstrates how to send Gmail from MS Excel with VBA.

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More Info on Gmail from Excel:-

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Google - Sign in using App Passwords

To use Google verification you will need an Application Specific password…

“Google Verification – App Passwords”

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Gmail with VBA Extra's

Retrieve Gmail with VBA?

CJ London asked the Question:- sending is pretty straightforward – but can you receive gmail into access?

Don't Know...

However it might be possible to knock something up:-

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Nice Article From MicroSoft

Collaboration Data Objects: Using E-Mail in Your Application

Extract:- How to incorporate e-mail into your client applications through the use of Collaboration Data Objects, a high-level set of COM objects that allow easy access to e-mail systems

EMail Tester

There’s a sample database on Colin’s site which looks interesting. Click on the link below and follow the instructions. I checked with Colin and it does use CDO. In any event it looks like an interesting example, well worth exploring.

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