How to pass email address and password for creating emails in GMail? - vba

Question

I need my Access Database to create emails that are sent at the press of a button.
This works for Outlook, and I adapted the code for Gmail.
I don't want to hardcode the email username and password. I want to pick it up from a combobox on the main form.
I get the error
Private Sub Email_Allocation_List_Click()
Dim newMail As CDO.Message
Dim mailConfiguration As CDO.Configuration
Dim fields As Variant
Dim msConfigURL As String
On Error GoTo errHandle
Set newMail = New CDO.Message
Set mailConfiguration = New CDO.Configuration
mailConfiguration.Load -1
Set fields = mailConfiguration.fields
With newMail
.Subject = "subject"
.From = [Forms]![Main form]![EmailAddress].Column(1)
.To = "email address"
.CC = "email address"
.BCC = ""
.TextBody = "Hello, " & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _
"Please find attached todays list of lines to be allocated." & _
vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Kind Regards." & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Carly"
.AddAttachment "file location"
End With
msConfigURL = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration"
With fields
.Item(msConfigURL & "/smtpusessl") = True
.Item(msConfigURL & "/smtpauthenticate") = 1
.Item(msConfigURL & "/smtpserver") = "smtp.gmail.com"
.Item(msConfigURL & "/smtpserverport") = 465
.Item(msConfigURL & "/sendusing") = 2
.Item(msConfigURL & "/sendusername") = [Forms]![Main form]![EmailAddress].Column(1)
.Item(msConfigURL & "/sendpassword") = [Forms]![Main form]![EmailAddress].Column(2)
.Update
End With
newMail.Configuration = mailConfiguration
newMail.Send
MsgBox "E-Mail has been sent", vbInformation
exit_line:
'// Release object memory
Set newMail = Nothing
Set mailConfiguration = Nothing
Exit Sub
errHandle:
MsgBox "Error: " & Err.Description, vbInformation
GoTo exit_line
End Sub
I checked the comboboxes work with a text box.

Answer 1

After a lot of messing around, you are correct, the code is fine - and it was reading the contents of the combo box correctly - however GMail didn't accept the log in information if there was a capital letter on the email address!!! Now working beautifully.