VBScript SMTP Server - vbscript

Question

I have set this up to auto email through the Outlook client, is it possible to change this code to work directly through an SMTP server? And could anyone possibly help me do it?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
Set app = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
For Each f In fso.GetFolder("Y:\Billing_Common\autoemail").Files
If LCase(fso.GetExtensionName(f)) = "xls" Then
Set wb = app.Workbooks.Open(f.Path)
set sh = wb.Sheets("Auto Email Script")
row = 2
name = "Customer"
email = sh.Range("A" & row)
subject = "Billing"
the = "the"
LastRow = sh.UsedRange.Rows.Count
For r = row to LastRow
If App.WorkSheetFunction.CountA(sh.Rows(r)) <> 0 Then
SendMessage email, name, subject, TRUE, _
NULL, "Y:\Billing_Common\autoemail\Script\energia-logo.gif", 143,393
row = row + 1
email = sh.Range("A" & row)
End if
Next
wb.Close
End If
Next
Sub SendMessage(EmailAddress, DisplayName, Subject, DisplayMsg, AttachmentPath, ImagePath, ImageHeight, ImageWidth)
' Create the Outlook session.
Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
template = FindTemplate()
' Create the message.
Set objOutlookMsg = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
With objOutlookMsg
' Add the To recipient(s) to the message.
Set objOutlookRecip = .Recipients.Add(EmailAddress)
objOutlookRecip.resolve
objOutlookRecip.Type = 1
' Set the Subject, Body, and Importance of the message.
.Subject = Subject
.bodyformat = 3
.Importance = 2 'High importance
body = Replace(template, "{First}", name)
body = Replace(body, "{the}", the)
if not isNull(ImagePath) then
if not ImagePath = "" then
.Attachments.add ImagePath
image = split(ImagePath,"\")(ubound(split(ImagePath,"\")))
body = Replace(body, "{image}", "<img src='cid:" & image & _
"'" & " height=" & ImageHeight &" width=" & ImageWidth & ">")
end if
else
body = Replace(body, "{image}", "")
end if
if not isNull(AttachMentPath) then
.Attachments.add AttachmentPath
end if
.HTMLBody = body
.Save
.Send
End With
Set objOutlook = Nothing
End Sub
Function FindTemplate()
Set OL = GetObject("", "Outlook.Application")
set Drafts = OL.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(16)
Set oItems = Drafts.Items
For Each Draft In oItems
If Draft.subject = "Template" Then
FindTemplate = Draft.HTMLBody
Exit Function
End If
Next
End Function

Answer 1

If you want to send mail directly to an SMTP server, there's no need to go through Outlook in the first place. Just use CDO. Something like this:
schema = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/"
Set msg = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
msg.Subject = "Test"
msg.From = "sender#example.com"
msg.To = "recipient#example.org"
msg.TextBody = "This is some sample message text."
With msg.Configuration.Fields
.Item(schema & "sendusing") = 2
.Item(schema & "smtpserver") = "smtp.intern.example.com"
.Item(schema & "smtpserverport") = 25
.Update
End With
msg.Send