Solved: using outlook in vba

[philfer]

Hello,

I am trying to send an email in code and have found several code examples that will help me achieve this.

All of them set a "MAPI namespace object" - my question is what on earth is that

I googles it (as one does) and found lots of technical gobbledygook but couldnt get my hands on a clear easy to understand explanation of what it is

Can anyone help

Cheers
Phil

[Bob Phillips]

Namespace is a group of data types, MAPI (Mail API) is just one of those. Outlook is just a mail client. You coulks use OE or any number of other 3rd party clients. It needs to interface with mail to do its stuff, this is via the mail API.