Use VBA to initiate a Send/Receive for a specific account

Applies to Microsoft Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003 and below

A visitor to our OutlookForums site wanted to know if he could create a button for an account:

Is it possible to create a toolbar button that would execute Send/Receive on one specific mail account only? I have send/receive groups, and the pull-down button for all accounts from the toolbar, but that involves some menu-wading.

While there are workable options for easier access that don't involve using VBA, you can use Outlook's SyncObjects property in a macro to trigger a send and receive for a specific Send/Receive Group or Account.

This sample does a send and receive on a specific send and receive group. To use, replace the 1 in mySyncObjects(1) with the desired group's position number.

Alternately, you could use the Group's name mySyncObjects("New Group")

Send and Receive Group macro

To use, open the VBA Editor using Alt+F11 and paste this code in either ThisOutlookSession or a Module. Assign it to a toolbar, ribbon, or QAT button to run it.

Public Sub SendReceiveGroup()
    
    Dim mySyncObjects As Outlook.SyncObjects
    Dim syc As Outlook.SyncObject
    
    Set mySyncObjects = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").SyncObjects

        Set syc = mySyncObjects(1)
        syc.Start
        
End Sub

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