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

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Last reviewed on December 4, 2018     4 Comments

Applies to: Outlook (classic), Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010

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.
Send and Receive Group numbers

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

More Information

OL2000: How to Programmatically Synchronize Folders (MSKB)
NameSpace.SyncObjects Property (TechNet)

Use VBA to initiate a Send/Receive for a specific account was last modified: December 4th, 2018 by Diane Poremsky

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About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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fordraiders (@guest_198411)
May 3, 2016 3:44 pm
#198411

I still keep getting the "You have emails in your sent box....." exiting in 30 second countdown..
Because I have put a Application.quit in the vba code in outlook?
How do I keep this msgbox from popping up ?

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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May 3, 2016 10:30 pm
#198413

Do you have messages waiting to be sent? I'm not aware of anyway to avoid that error if there are messages in the outbox.

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fordraiders (@guest_198467)
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May 5, 2016 1:50 am
#198467

Yes, They are in outbox..

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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May 5, 2016 9:08 am
#198472

If there are messages, you should always get that warning message. There are scripts available that will respond to dialogs (such as ClickYes) - you might be able to incorporate that into the macro.

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