Sending email in R via outlook

Question

How can I send emails in R via Outlook? All the examples of `sendmailR` use the gmail server, but I cannot do that.

Accepted Answer

You can use `RDCOMClient` package to access to COM objects from within R. You can easily access the Application Object (Outlook) and configure it. Here a simple example of sending an email:

```
library(RDCOMClient)
## init com api
OutApp <- COMCreate("Outlook.Application")
## create an email 
outMail = OutApp$CreateItem(0)
## configure  email parameter 
outMail[["To"]] = "dest@dest.com"
outMail[["subject"]] = "some subject"
outMail[["body"]] = "some body"
## send it                     
outMail$Send()
```

Of course, this assumes that you have already install outlook and configure it to send/receive your emails. Adding attachment is quite simple also:

```
outMail[["Attachments"]]$Add(path_to_attch_file)
```

sending on behalf of secondary mailbox:

```
outMail[["SentOnBehalfOfName"]] = "yoursecondary@mail.com"
```

Sending email in R via outlook

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