Outlook Email and Signature from Excel VBA - .Body vs .HTMLbody

Question

I have a button on my worksheet to send an email (plus more, but not important). I want my default signature with its HTML formatting but neither option is producing the re

Answer 1

try to insert your data into the properly html tags:

.HTMLBody = "<font face=""verdana"" color=""black"">This is some text!</font>"

for spaces you must to add this tag "<br>", For example:

.HTMLBody = "<font face=""calibri"" color=""black""> hello <br>"
.HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & " how <br>" & " are <br>" & " you?</font>"

result in:

hello

---

how

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are

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you?

Edit2

In order to insert images (signature as images) you could use the following code:

1 step. Copy this code an paste in class module and name that class module like "MailOptions"

Private Message As CDO.Message
Private Attachment, Expression, Matches, FilenameMatch, i

Public Sub PrepareMessageWithEmbeddedImages(ByVal FromAddress, ByVal ToAddress, ByVal Subject, ByVal HtmlContent)

    Set Expression = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
    Expression.Pattern = "\<EMBEDDEDIMAGE\:(.+?)\>"
    Expression.IgnoreCase = True
    Expression.Global = False 'one match at a time

    Set Message = New CDO.Message
    Message.From = FromAddress
    Message.To = ToAddress
    Message.Subject = Subject

    'Find matches in email body, incrementally increasing the auto-assigned attachment identifiers
    i = 1
    While Expression.Test(HtmlContent)
        FilenameMatch = Expression.Execute(HtmlContent).Item(0).SubMatches(0)
        Set Attachment = Message.AddAttachment(FilenameMatch)
        Attachment.Fields.Item("urn:schemas:mailheader:Content-ID") = "<attachedimage" & i & ">" ' set an ID we can refer to in HTML
        Attachment.Fields.Item("urn:schemas:mailheader:Content-Disposition") = "inline" ' "hide" the attachment
        Attachment.Fields.Update
        HtmlContent = Expression.Replace(HtmlContent, "cid:attachedimage" & i) ' update the HTML to refer to the actual attachment
        i = i + 1
    Wend

    Message.HTMLBody = HtmlContent
End Sub

Public Sub SendMessageBySMTP(ByVal SmtpServer, ByVal SmtpUsername, ByVal SmtpPassword, ByVal UseSSL)
    Dim Configuration
    Set Configuration = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
    Configuration.Load -1 ' CDO Source Defaults
    Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
    Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = SmtpServer
    'Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = SmtpPort
    Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 30

    If SmtpUsername <> "" Then
        Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1
        Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = SmtpUsername
        Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = SmtpPassword
    End If
    Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = UseSSL
    Configuration.Fields.Update
    Set Message.Configuration = Configuration
    Message.Send
End Sub

Step 2. In an standar module you will elaborate your .html content and instantiate a object from the class:

public sub send_mail()

Dim signature As String
dim mail_sender as new MailOptions 'here you are instantiating an object from the class module created previously
dim content as string

signature = "C:\Users\your_user\Documents\your_signature.png"

content = "<font face=""verdana"" color=""black"">This is some text!</font>"
content = content & "<img src=""<EMBEDDEDIMAGE:" & signature & " >"" />"

mail_sender.PrepareMessageWithEmbeddedImages _
                    FromAddress:="chrism_mail@blablabla.com", _
                    ToAddress:="addressee_mail@blablabla.com", _
                    Subject:="your_subject", _
                    HtmlContent:=content

'your_Smtp_Server, for example: RelayServer.Contoso.com
correos.SendMessageBySMTP "your_Smtp_Server", "your_network_user_account", "your_network_user_account_password", False

end sub

Answer 2

When you set the HTMLBody property, make sure you merge the existing HTMLBody (with the signature) and your new data - you cannot just concatenate two HTML strings and expects a valid HTML. find the position of the "<body" string, find the position of the next ">" (to take care of the body elements with attributes), insert your data after that ">".