Email Question (Ron De Bruin related)

[Guest]

Hello all

I was looking at some of Ron's email code on his website. I tested a few and they worked great. I am interested in this code found here: Mail a message to each person in a range (Outlook only) http://www.rondebruin.nl/sendmail.htm#messag

I have a question though. The code looks in a column and emails everyone in it. I'm trying to have an automated emailing list but the problem I have is that in my spreadsheet we have names repeated a lot. I dont want the person getting 10-20 emails that say the same thing. Does anyone have any idea to make it so that the person on the list will get emailed only once? need some brainstorming

The code in the link above will just loop down the column and email people regardless of who they are. My code has been changed a bit and instead of looking for a yes, it looks for "5" (as in 5 days remaining till an action is due)

Sub SendEmailRoutine(
Dim olApp As Outlook.Applicatio
Dim olMail As MailIte
Dim cell As Rang
Application.ScreenUpdating = Fals
Set olApp = New Outlook.Applicatio
For Each cell In Sheets("Sheet1").Columns("F").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants
If cell.Offset(0, 1).Value <> "" The
If cell.Value Like "*" And cell.Offset(0, 1).Value = "5" The
Set olMail = olApp.CreateItem(olMailItem
With olMai
.To = cell.Valu
.Subject = "Reminder
.Body = "Dear " & cell.Value & vbNewLine & vbNewLine &
"You have an action due in 5 days! Please contact us.
.Send 'Or use Displa
End Wit
Set olMail = Nothin
End I
End I
Next cel
Set olApp = Nothin
Application.ScreenUpdating = Tru
End Su

Thanks
Lob

 

[Patrick Molloy]

set a reference in the IDE to Miscrosoft Scripting Runtime
We'll use a scripting Dictionary to save the addresses to
which we're sending. The advantage of this dictionary
versus a collection is that we can test if a "key" aleady
exists.
So there are two dims and a couple of changes to make, as
follows:

Sub SendEmailRoutine()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olMail As MailItem
Dim cell As Range

Dim addresslist As Scripting.Dictionary ' NEW
Dim sAddress As String 'NEW
Set addresslist = New Scripting.Dictionary 'NEW


Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
For Each cell In Sheets("Sheet1").Columns
("F").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
sAddress = cell.Value
If cell.Offset(0, 1).Value <> "" Then

If sAddress Like "*" And cell.Offset(0,
1).Value = "5" Then ' CHANGE
addresslist.Add sAddress, sAddress 'NEW

If Not addresslist.Exists(sAddress) Then'NEW
Set olMail = olApp.CreateItem
(olMailItem)
With olMail
.To = cell.Value
.Subject = "Reminder"
.Body = "Dear " & cell.Value &
vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _
"You have an action due
in 5 days! Please contact us."
.Send 'Or use Display
End With
Set olMail = Nothing
End If

End If ' NEW

End If
Next cell
Set olApp = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub





Patrick Molloy
Microsoft Excel MVP

-----Original Message-----
Hello all,

I was looking at some of Ron's email code on his

website. I tested a few and they worked great. I am
interested in this code found here: Mail a message to
each person in a range (Outlook only)
http://www.rondebruin.nl/sendmail.htm#message

I have a question though. The code looks in a column

and emails everyone in it. I'm trying to have an
automated emailing list but the problem I have is that in
my spreadsheet we have names repeated a lot. I dont want
the person getting 10-20 emails that say the same thing.
Does anyone have any idea to make it so that the person
on the list will get emailed only once? need some
brainstorming.

The code in the link above will just loop down the

column and email people regardless of who they are. My
code has been changed a bit and instead of looking for a
yes, it looks for "5" (as in 5 days remaining till an
action is due).

 

[Guest]

Hey Patrick

I get an error message

Compile Error: User-Defined type not defined and it higlights Dim addresslist As Scripting.Dictionary ' NE

any ideas on what i can do to fix it?

 

[Guest]

oops... I did not understand the setting reference part but I do now

I added the reference but now.. the macro doesnt seem to be sending an email at all...hmm

 

[Guest]

Ok update

When i have two of the same names in different rows... it will say "This key is alreadyt associated with an element of this collection" and I can hit either ok or help.

If i no duplicate names... it no longer seems to be sending out an email.... Am trying to debug it

 

[Guest]

sorry for so many posts.

Am not sure how clear I am heh

I have a spreadsheet with many names.. there will definately be lots of repititions of names and email addresses... I want an email to be sent to a person when they have an action due. A person in my spreadsheet may have 25 different actions/rows and on different days. If they have many actions due on march 1st.. I just want the spreadsheet to email them once instead of many times. If they have more actions due on march 2nd.. i'd like the spreadsheet to email them once on that day as well instead of many times.