How to create a mailitem? - vba

Question

I'm trying to send the active Excel workbook as an attachment via Outlook.
Whenever I run the code it says
Invalid use of New key word
at New Outlook.MailItem`.
Sub SendOutlook()
'Declaring Variables
Dim OutlookApp As Outlook.Application
Dim OutlookEmail As Outlook.MailItem
'Assigning variables to create outlook application and mailitem
Set OutlookApp = New Outlook.Application
Set OutlookEmail = New Outlook.MailItem
With OutlookEmail
'Format of the mail
.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain
'Body of the mail
.Body = "Dear Someone" & vbNewLine & "How are you?"
'To whom you want to send mail
.To = "Someone#somewhere.com"
'Subject of mail
.Subject = "Write Subject Here"
'TO add an attachment
.Attachments.Add ActiveWorkbook.FullName
'sends the mail
.Send
End With
End Sub

Answer 1

You cannot create a MailItem via New. It must be created using CreateItem of the the Outlook Application Object.
Set OutlookApp = New Outlook.Application
Set OutlookEmail = OutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)

Answer 2

As far as I got to know from the research is that Programmatic access to sending emails is a security risk, so it's not allowed via VBA.

Answer 3

You can use a programmatic approach with the following:
Option Explicit
Private outlook_app As Object
Private outlook_mailItem As Variant
Sub send_email()
Set outlook_app = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
With outlook_app.CreateItem(outlook_mailItem)
.To = "Someone#somewhere.com"
.Subject = "Write Subject Here"
.Body = "Dear Someone" & vbNewLine & "How are you?"
.send
End With
Set outlook_app = Nothing
End Sub