Driving me NUTS


In the simple little macro below, if I do NOT include an attachment, I get an error 287 on .Send

With an attached file, the message is generated and sent as expected

Is there any way that I would not have to .Add an attachment

Win7 64bit, MS Office 2010

Thanks

Option Explicit
Sub SendEmail()
    Dim OutApp As Object
    Dim OutMail As Object
    
    Dim sFile As String, sBody As String, sRecipiant
    
    sBody = "This is an email message"
    sFile = "C:\Users\Me\Scripts\Logs\bu2000-2015-01-20.log"
    sRecipiant = "me@here.net"
    Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
    With OutMail
        .To = sRecipiant
        .CC = vbNullString
        .BCC = vbNullString
        .Subject = "email test -- " & Format(Now, "General Date")
        .Body = sBody
        'without attachment I get an error 287 on the .Send
        .Attachments.Add sFile
        .ReadReceiptRequested = False
        'err 287 - application-defined or object-defined error
        .Send
    End With
    Set OutMail = Nothing
    Set OutApp = Nothing
        
End Sub