Sending email in R via outlook
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"]]$Add(path_to_attch_file)
sending on behalf of secondary mailbox:
outMail[["SentOnBehalfOfName"]] = "yoursecondary@mail.com"
Send authenticated mails via Outlook through R using mailR package
This took me a while to figure out. Try this:
send.mail(from = "username@custom.org",
to = c("recipient1@custom.org", "recipient2@custom.org"),
subject = "Title",
body = "Hello from R.",
authenticate = TRUE,
smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.office365.com",
port = 587,
user.name = "username@custom.org",
passwd = "Pa55w0rd",
tls = TRUE))
It is a common misconception that the port is 25 or 447. I believe port 25 can only be used whenauthenticate = FALSE
.
Many sources claim that the correct server is smtp-mail.outlook.com
. Perhaps you could try this in the event that the code does not work. Moreover, do not use ssl = TRUE
. It has to be tls = TRUE
.
Shoutout to Rahul Premraj's answer to this archived 2014 question.
Sending email attachment in R via Outlook
Your issue lies in the fact that you have not escape the escape when adding the attachment
You have the below
outMail[["Attachments"]]$Add("A:/Automate_Emails/Test_Attachment.pdf")
You it should look like this
outMail[["Attachments"]]$Add("A:\\Automate_Emails\\Test_Attachment.pdf")
Sending emails in R without outlook app in the system
Solved the problem, using mailR package and it works well.
library(mailR)
send.mail(from = "email@company.com",
to = "email@company.com",
subject = subjectToSend ,
body = bodyToSend,
html = TRUE,
smtp = list(host.name = "smtp.company.com", port = 25),
send = TRUE)
how do you send email from R
I just tried it out, and it worked for me.
My only differences were I used <> for the from and to:
from = "<email1@dal.ca>"
to = "<email2@gmail.com>"
and my mail control was different, I used
control=list(smtpServer="ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM"))
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