'  Declare VARS
     Dim objOutlookApp As Outlook.Application
     Dim objNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
     Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
     Dim FSys As New FileSystemObject
     Dim TStream
     Dim strBody as Sting

'  Set the application objects
      Set objOutlookApp = Outlook.Application
      Set objNameSpace = objOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

'  Get Message Body
     Set TStream = FSys.OpenTextFile("MyFile.txt", ForReading)
txtLocal.Text = TStream.ReadAll

 
'  Login to Outlook
      objNameSpace.Logon
 
'  Set the mail item
      Set objMail = objOutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
 
'  Set properties for the mail item and send mail
      With objMail
             .To = "steveb@njatc.org"
             .Subject = "Message Sent from Visual Basic"
             .Body = "This message was created by automating Outlook from VB!"
             .Send
      End With
 
'  Logoff NameSpace
      objNameSpace.Logoff
 
'Release objects
      Set objMail = Nothing
      Set objNameSpace = Nothing
      Set objOutlookApp = Nothing
 
End Sub

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Stephen W. Boyd
NJATC I.T. Support
steveb@njatc.org

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