Starting Outlook and having an email pre-populated

Question

Is this possible? I want to have the To:, Body, and an Attachment all pre-populated so all the user has to do is click send. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can attach files AND pre-fill in the To/Body if you simply place " " quotes around the command after the /m

Example:

outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m "[e-mail]&subject=test%20subject&body=test%20body" /a test.txt

Answer 2

VonC's solution works, but as stated in the comments by skbergam it doesn't allow for attachments.

If, like me, that's a biggie then the following WSH code does it.

Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set olMsg = olApp.CreateItem(0)

With olMsg
  .To = "[e-mail]"
  '.CC = "[e-mail]"
  '.BCC = "[e-mail]"
  .Subject = "Subject"
  .Body = "Body"
  .Attachments.Add "C:\path\to\attachment\test.txt" 

  .Display
End With

I've tried it with Outlook2003

Answer 3

Open a new mail message (ipm.note is the message class for emails)

outlook.exe /c ipm.note

Open a new mail message and populate sender:

outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m [e-mail]

Open a new mail message with attachment:

 outlook.exe /c ipm.note /a filename

Combination: (First one below didn't work in Office 2016, second did)

 outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m [e-mail]&subject=test%20subject&body=test%20body
 outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m "[e-mail]&subject=test%20subject&body=test%20body"

The %20 has to be used to produce a blank space.

• More details at Command Line for Creating a Pre-Addressed E-mail Message
• Command-line switches can be found here