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c#emailoutlookoffice-interop
user1143606
user1143606

Reputation:

How to send an email in C# using a different email account than the logged in user

I have a working form which sends emails from the default logged in account. I am trying to add a feature where the user can select an email account from a drop down list and send the emails via an alt address, like [email protected] or [email protected]. I am trying to use the "SendUsingAccount" option but no luck. I have look online but mostly find examples using VB which im not familiar with. My code is as follows:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application objOutlook = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
var mic = (MailItem)(objOutlook.CreateItem(OlItemType.olMailItem));
Inspector oAddSig = null;

mic.sendusingaccount = ??????????????     //here is where i need the help
mic.Subject = "Announcing Participant Website Enhancements!";
mic.Importance = OlImportance.olImportanceHigh;
mic.BodyFormat = OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML;
//mic.Attachments.Add(PDFAttachment + yearending.Text + ".pdf");
object emailBody = ToolBox.GetStringFromTextFile((string)EmailBody);
oAddSig = mic.GetInspector;
mic.HTMLBody = emailBody + mic.HTMLBody;
//mic.Display(true);
mic.Send();

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8612

Answers (3)

Mario Corchero
Mario Corchero

Reputation: 5575

    Outlook.Account account =
    Application.Session.Accounts["Hotmail"];
mic.SendUsingAccount = account;

May be You can check the different accounts at Sessions...

You can check: MSDN

Upvotes: 1

Asmodeo
Asmodeo

Reputation: 43

if you have a dropdown you could create a string with the value of that dd and asign sendusingaccount = your string

    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application objOutlook = new     Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application(); 
    string email = yourdropdown.selectedvalue;
    var mic = (MailItem)(objOutlook.CreateItem(OlItemType.olMailItem)); 
    Inspector oAddSig = null; 
    mic.sendusingaccount = email

I hope this help you

Upvotes: 2

A.R.
A.R.

Reputation: 15685

Well I always use the SMTP client from the System.Net.Mail namespace. It has a method called 'send' that allows you to provide the address of whom the message is 'from'

Check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.smtpclient.aspx

As long as you know the address of your exchange server (which should be OK since you are trying to use outlook in your example) everything should be A-OK. Probably a bit easier than the approach above too.

Upvotes: 3

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