Using VBA to email a file without using outlook

Question

If outlook is not installed on a computer, is there anyway of using another mail client to send emails eg "Windows live 2012", "Thunderbird" or another?

If outlook is needed, then is there a free version that can be used ( can it be used on windows 10 and 7?)

Also related, is that when I use word on window 10, the default windows 10 mail client will not let me mail merge from word to an email. I installed Windows live 2012 to get around this. I though this was a bit rubbish that windows 10 behaved in this way by default.

Answer 1

The best way to do this is to use an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Server. Luckily Gmail is set up to do this easily. There is a tutorial here that will walk you through step-by-step. I have used this method many times and it works very well.

VBA Email with Gmail

Edit to add link on File Attachment:

File Attachment using CDO