email prob

What type of control is Ms? And what about Mm? Have you declared any constants? Are you even calling this sub?

I have no idea judging by the information you gave us, but the error message sounds like you are trying to set the value of a constant.

This codeis supposed to email a simple message but I get an error "Assignment to constant not permitted.."
what is wrong with it?

sub cmdSend
frmMain.Ms.SignOn
frmMain.Mm.SessionID = frmMain.Mm.SessionID
frmMain.Mm.Compose
frmMain.Mm.RecipAddress = Me.txtTo
frmMain.Mm.MsgSubject = Me.txtSubject
frmMain.Mm.MsgNoteText = Me.txtMessage
frmMain.Mm.Show
frmMain.Mm.Send = False
frmMain.Ms.SignOff
end sub

The .Send method cannot be set to false. Just use MM.Send.

mm=mapimessage1
ms=mapisession
no declared constants

The only thing I can see that might cause that message is the frmMain.mm.Send = False statement. That appears to be the only constant in the posted code. you might want to double check the usage of .Send

thats what the tut siad 2 do

What you is:

.Send false

It's a function parameter, not a property assignment.

thanks every one!

I changed it so that it looks like this and i get a
"MAPI Failure: Valid SessionID does not exist" type error

Private Sub cmdSend_Click()
frmMain.Ms.SignOn
frmMain.Mm.SessionID = frmMain.Mm.SessionID
frmMain.Mm.Compose
frmMain.Mm.RecipAddress = Me.txtTo
frmMain.Mm.MsgSubject = Me.txtSubject
frmMain.Mm.MsgNoteText = Me.txtMessage
frmmain.mm.Send
frmMain.Mm.Show
frmMain.Ms.SignOff
End Sub

and then when i choose to debug visual basic highlights the line:
"frmMain.Mm.Compose"
what is going on?

do this:

frmMain.Mm.SessionID = frmMain.Ms.SessionID

Also I'd recommend using With frmMain. It'll save you typing it every time.

THANK YOU ..that was it..lol
hahahahah
thanks BUD!

There is a tutorial in the Tutor's Corner about using Winsock and Telnet to send e-mail. That's how I do it; it's a lot more fun that way, and less dependent on the machine you're using.

Is there a way that I can make it so that I cannot see MS Outlook Express sending the message?(its to time consuming)

Is there a way to NOT use MS Outlook?(My outlook is sort of messed up)

If there is then it will be in the mail application that the MAPI control is using. Have a browse through the Outlook settings.

I'll try..thank you
Is there any other methods of retrieving/send email without using any external programs??

Look at Orufet's post. He suggested looking at the Tutorial on using winsock to do email.

Yes, winsock and SMTP.

The most generic way.

where can I find out howto do this?

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There is a tutorial in the Tutor's Corner about using Winsock and Telnet to send e-mail. That's how I do it; it's a lot more fun that way, and less dependent on the machine you're using.

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Please read the posts before you ask a question that I already answered...

You can start by reading the various smtp rfc's. 876 is the first one I believe.

ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/

Sending email by SMTP via Winsock is probably a little out of lmb2001's depth though. I'd stick to using Outlook with MAPI if I were you.

You're assuming that same attitude I complain about here... how will he know it's out of his depth if he doesn't even try?

So many ppl miss my little tutorial.. argh! ***... Email is easy.... use SMTP, its all there for you... please..... love me...... ***...

I certainly agree, SMTP is SO easy. If you use the winsock control (not that I recommend that, but winsock is harder to learn than SMTP) even a semi-inexperienced programmer can whip up an email sender in just a little while.

Is the hotmail SMTP the same as Yahoo SMTP?
Im having no luck with the winsock control (tryng to imitate SMTP ) what about SocketWrentch?

SMTP is SMTP is SMTP.
Yahoo! uses regular ole' SMTP to send email just like the majority of other email services out there.

Good Luck
-cl

Theres a working example of using winsock to send mail through HotMails SMTP in the Code Lib. Check there...