VB: How to change the outlook sender

[simonyong]

Hello,

I have an application which user need to log in with using their email.
there is a button, "Send Email"--
when user click the button, then it will pop up a outlook editor
Response.Redirect("mailto:?bcc=" Email_AddressEs)
My problem is the sender tied to the computer using, not the account of then application

Is it possible that i change the sender using coding behind?

Thanks for teaching.

[PianoMan64]

Hello,

I have an application which user need to log in with using their email.
there is a button, "Send Email"--
when user click the button, then it will pop up a outlook editor
Response.Redirect("mailto:?bcc=" Email_AddressEs)
My problem is the sender tied to the computer using, not the account of then application

Is it possible that i change the sender using coding behind?

Thanks for teaching.

Hey Simonyoung,

Since you are using the current profile of the current logged in user of the PC, you're going to extremely limited on what email address your email is going to be coming from unless all the users of this alias that may be setup has permissions by MS Exchange email address that you're wanting to send email on and/or if it is a POP3 account, that this particular user is setup on each and every machine that is going to send the BCC email. This is a major dropback in the method that you're using.

If you are sending email from a webpage that has a predifined Admin and/or a specific account, that is accessable, then you simply would go into the WEB.CONFIG file, and setup the user name, password, Port number and the SMTP server that you're going to be using to send email, and then you will have to write code that will create the email and send it on behalf of the Admin and/or specific user account that you want to send it from.

Attached is a copy of a sample webpage that you can send email from.




If you need assistance with how to do in detail, let me know.

Thanks,

Joe P.

[simonyong]

Hey Simonyoung,

Since you are using the current profile of the current logged in user of the PC, you're going to extremely limited on what email address your email is going to be coming from unless all the users of this alias that may be setup has permissions by MS Exchange email address that you're wanting to send email on and/or if it is a POP3 account, that this particular user is setup on each and every machine that is going to send the BCC email. This is a major dropback in the method that you're using.

If you are sending email from a webpage that has a predifined Admin and/or a specific account, that is accessable, then you simply would go into the WEB.CONFIG file, and setup the user name, password, Port number and the SMTP server that you're going to be using to send email, and then you will have to write code that will create the email and send it on behalf of the Admin and/or specific user account that you want to send it from.

Attached is a copy of a sample webpage that you can send email from.




If you need assistance with how to do in detail, let me know.

Thanks,

Joe P.

Thanks PianoMan64
I try it now.

[simonyong]

Hello, PianoMan64
I look thru the file you gave me which create an interface and using asp.net build-in features (asp.net send email)

but in my case, I want just click a button then pop up a microsoft outlook editor
the pop up i already did it
My problem is the sender tied to my account which my id to log in this computer.
Is it possible that i change the sender to the web page user's account?
I'm not so clear about the pasange
Can sir explain more detail to me?
Thanks lots.

<<Since you are using the current profile of the current logged in user of the PC, you're going to extremely limited on what email address your email is going to be coming from unless all the users of this alias that may be setup has permissions by MS Exchange email address that you're wanting to send email on and/or if it is a POP3 account, that this particular user is setup on each and every machine that is going to send the BCC email. This is a major dropback in the method that you're using.>>

[PianoMan64]

@simonyong
Ok,

Here it goes,

When you create an Email account on an Exchange server or if you're not using exchange, there is a profile that is created with the senders email address.

1. If you have an outlook client tide to MS Exchange, then you'll have to have the System Admin or Network Admin, depending on who is in charge of creating Mail Accounts in MS Exchange, to create Multiple mailboxes that would be tide to your computer. If this mailboxes are from other users on the network, then the MS Excahnge Admin would have to give you access to each of those users account, so you would be able to send email on their behalf. PLEASE NOTE: "It will say that you are sending the email on behalf of the other user." So spam program will not let this email through.

2. If you are using a copy of Outlook Client without Exchange, then you can create profiles with each username and password for Each pop3 account that you want to send email on. But then again you're going to have to write the ASP.NET to interact with a local copy of Outlook Client in order to make all this work the way that you want. This is beyond my what I know how to do.

Hope that helps,

Joe P.

[Plater]

Here's a short answer: no, not really.
Outlook is tied to accounts, you're at the mercy of it (except in situations as pianoman has been describing)
This is a situation where you cannot have your cake and eat it to.
You either go the webmail form way and send the email out from the server using the accounts you want, or you popup the users default email client (normally outlook) and send the email from whatever account is configured on it.

You may be able to MASK the sender with the ?From=[e-mail], but the email is still going to be sent from the given account