Can you add a 5 second delay after each Send statement in the VBA code below.

juscuz419

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Code below Blows up Outlook after 12 emails go out. Any way to add a delay after each email to keep that from happening. Maximum # of emails would be 40.​

Got this code from a user in Microsoft Community last May. It works great until the number of emails exceeds 12 then I get 12 emails sent and email failure notifications from Outlook for the rest.

Sub CreatePersonSpecificPDFs()

' -------------------------------
' Declarations
' -------------------------------

' This sub creates a .pdf file for individual timesheets for the event and "Blindly"
' emails them to the email address found on each timesheet

' Workbook object used 1. to loop through worksheets,
' 2. specify which worksheet to export as PDF.
Dim wsSource As Worksheet

Dim sEmailAddress As String

' File name and location.
Dim sPath As String
Dim sFileName As String
Dim sFileSpec As String

' Array holding "tab names" of person-specific worksheets.
Dim asSheetTabNames() As String

' Count of qualifying worksheets.
Dim iSheetsFound As Long

' Used for looping person-specific worksheets found.
Dim iSheet As Long

' Objects used for sending email via outlook.
Dim oOutlookApp As Object
Dim oMailItem As Object

Dim sMsg As String

' -------------------------------
' Initializations
' -------------------------------

sPath = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\"

iSheetsFound = 0

' -------------------------------
' ID Sheets to Export
' -------------------------------

' Iterate through the worksheets collection looking for person-
' specific worksheets to be exported as a PDF file.
' Load person-specific worksheet TAB names into the array.
For Each wsSource In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets

' Use worksheets' "code names" to determine which worksheets are to be exported.
' A person-specific worksheet has codename like Template# or like Template##
' where # is a wildcard indicating any numeric value.
If wsSource.CodeName Like "Template#" Or wsSource.CodeName Like "Template##" _
Then

iSheetsFound = iSheetsFound + 1

ReDim Preserve asSheetTabNames(iSheetsFound)

asSheetTabNames(iSheetsFound) = wsSource.Name

End If

Next wsSource


' -------------------------------------------------
' Check no Person-specific Sheets Found
' -------------------------------------------------

If iSheetsFound = 0 _
Then
sMsg = "No individual timesheets have been created"
MsgBox sMsg, vbCritical, "Create then email PDFs"
Exit Sub
End If

' ---------------------------------
' Export then Email PDFs
' ---------------------------------

For iSheet = 1 To iSheetsFound

sFileName = asSheetTabNames(iSheet) & ".PDF"

sFileSpec = sPath & sFileName

' Delete the file if it already exists.
On Error Resume Next
Kill sFileSpec
On Error GoTo 0

Set wsSource = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(asSheetTabNames(iSheet))

wsSource.ExportAsFixedFormat _
Type:=xlTypePDF, _
Filename:=sFileSpec, _
Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
IgnorePrintAreas:=False, _
OpenAfterPublish:=False

' Get email address from the person-specific worksheet.
sEmailAddress = wsSource.Range("EmailAddress").Value

' Set up Outlook objects for sending email.
Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set oMailItem = oOutlookApp.CreateItem(0)

' Attach the single person-specific PDF file to an email.
With oMailItem
.To = "**Email removed for security* @aol.com)"
' .To = sEmailAddress 'Specify the email address of the recipient
.Subject = "Time Sheet"
.Body = "Please find attached your timesheet. Respond to this email with your acceptance."
.Attachments.Add sFileSpec
.Send
End With

Set oOutlookApp = Nothing
Set oMailItem = Nothing

Next iSheet

End Sub
 

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After this line:
Set oMailItem = Nothing


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Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("00:00:05"))
 
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Not sure I am pursuing the right path. I added the line statement suggested and ran a test for 40 emails with attachments. It increased the number of emails sent to 17 before starting to send mail failure reports. Increased the delay a couple of more times, retested, and ended up at 15 seconds. That allowed 34 emails to go out. Oddly, after getting a single failure message, more emails would go out, then a couple more failure notifications followed by a few more emails going out, totaling 34 successes out of the 40 attempts. There were 3 additional emails placed in the Outlook Drafts folder. Could this be an Outlook problem or a network bandwidth problem instead of a code problem? Or is there a better idea out there to accomplish creating a pdf of up to 40 worksheets, opening Outlook, attaching the pdf to an email with an address contained in the worksheet and sending the emails automatically?
 
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There could be several causes, memory, the performance of your computer, the network, etc.

Try again.

Move this line:

Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

Before this line:
For iSheet = 1 To iSheetsFound

Delete this line:
Set oOutlookApp = Nothing


Try again
 
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There could be several causes, memory, the performance of your computer, the network, etc.

Try again.

Move this line:

Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

Before this line:
For iSheet = 1 To iSheetsFound

Delete this line:
Set oOutlookApp = Nothing


Try again
Finally got a chance to get back to this. Last suggestion seems to have worked. I sent 40 emails with PDF attachments to myself as a test and got no System Admin failure notices from Outlook. I received all 40 emails. It took a while for all of them to come in but I think that was more because they were coming to my inbox all at once rather than going to the 40 individuals mailboxes. Thanks for the help. I have a couple more "opportunities" I want to explore for this tool. Look forward to posting them.
 
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Im glad to help you. Thanks for the feedback.
😇
 
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