How Can I send email from ML with two different accounts?

Hi,

I have MS outlook installed. I'm trying to use 'sendolmail' function in ML. But I would like to figure out hot to use different account instead of the default one. I tried the following:

h = actxserver('outlook.Application');
mail = h.CreateItem('olMail');
get(h.Session)

but it returns only one account. I dunno how to tell ML to use another one.

Thanks for help

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Instead of using ActiveX to talk to Outlook, why not use MATLAB'S sendmail()? I attach a demo.

[Michael Mateju]

Because I would like to send nice colourful and formatted email (thus I'm using HTML code). That's for one. Another reason is I do not want to put any credentials into matlab and ML cannot communicate with the firm's server directly.

[Image Analyst]

Sorry then. I haven't used ActiveX to talk to Outlook. You'll have to look on the Microsoft Office Developer site to figure out what methods can be called when talking to Outlook.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/

[Michael Mateju]

I actually did. However, they're using examples in VBA. And those examples I cannot replicate in ML (by converting the code into ML code ofc). They suggest following code

mail.SendUsingAccount = h.Session.Accounts(1)

or with (2) and there is the problem. ML can see only one Account:/

[Image Analyst]

Is Outlook running or not running when you do that? If running, are you logged in with your second account?

[Michael Mateju]

It doesn't matter if the outlook is running. It still shows only one account (I have 2 accounts and 2 profiles. Still only the first profile and only one account there).

[Image Analyst]

You're probably going to have to find the methods to tell Outlook to logout of the current session and log in to the account you want, because the default one it takes first is not the one you want. Sorry but I don't know the names of those methods.

[wei]

This is also what I am look for. Have you got any answer on it ?

[Image Analyst]

Like I said, I don't. And Michael never returned here to say if he found the ActiveX method to specify which account to log in to. If you figure it out, maybe you will post your learnings here.

[wei]

I can only specify which account is used to send mail by changing the default email account, cannot find anyway to choose directly from Matlab.