Create new outgoing message with applescript in Microsoft Outlook

Question

I'm trying to create a new outgoing message with Microsoft Outlook 2011 for mac, using AppleScript. The following example worked in 10.6.8:

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
    set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"Hooray for automation"}
    make new recipient at newMessage with properties {email address:{name:"Jim Shank", address:"jim.shank@example.com"}}
    open newMessage
end tell

On Lion I'm getting the following error:

Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t make class outgoing message.

Does anybody have a clue what went wrong there?

I'm using offline Outlook.

Apparently in more recent versions of Outlook one needs to use 'to recipient' or 'cc recipient' or 'bcc recipient' on the third line of the script. — Von, Oct 02 '20 at 20:40

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '12 at 09:02

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Apparently, I'm using a trial version, that has expired. With registered version this script works perfectly. Boo Outlook...I spent on looking into this a couple of hours!

answered Mar 04 '12 at 09:02

Nava Carmon

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 30 '16 at 18:10

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tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
    set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"Hooray for automation"}
    make new recipient at newMessage with properties {email address:{name:"Jim Shank", address:"jim.shank@example.com"}}
    send newMessage
end tell

This way, it will automatically send it.

edited Sep 30 '16 at 18:10

Laurel

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answered Sep 30 '16 at 01:25

Ko Kane

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Create new outgoing message with applescript in Microsoft Outlook

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