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Sending email without hardcoding email server information. How?

Hello Experts,

I've found some posts on EE regarding how to send emails however all of them require to my knowledge the hardcoding of the email server information.

Basic Info:

At work, we have around 2700 workstations and each employee already has their own NT login which just happens to be part of their email address too e.g. johndoe@company.com.

I was wondering if there is a way to create and app that consists of lets say... Button1 & Text1. Whatever txt is found within this box gets sent to a hard coded email address once Button1 is pressed.

Question:

How to make the code behind this button send emails with currently logged on user's outlook profile including all email server info etc.

Thanks for any help : -)
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1) Are you asking how to send email with Outlook automation?

2) What version of Outlook are you using?

3) Does everyone have the same version?

Bob
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Outlook 2000. All of them yes.
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Are you going to send attachments?  If so, you can't use the mailto: protocol.  Also, you can only send plain text emails, and not HTML/RTF.

Bob
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just text
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What did you think about using mailto:?

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We've been assuming that you can get the user's Outlook profile. Is that correct or do you need some ideas about that?

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sorry about the delay, was on vacation