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How to change 'from address' when sending email in an AL Extension

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Posted on by Nick Webb

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I've setup an email account in BC (type: Smtp).

I have a procedure (see code below) which is working fine except that the From Address is coming from the Email Account and not from the code below.

procedure SendEnhancedEmail()
var
recTempEmailItem: Record "Email Item" temporary;
begin
Clear(recTempEmailItem);
recTempEmailItem.Reset();
recTempEmailItem.Init();
recTempEmailItem.Initialize();
recTempEmailItem."From Address" := 'nick.webb@o-net.co.uk'; // <- This line is being ignored.
recTempEmailItem."Send to" := 'nick.webb@o-net.co.uk';
recTempEmailItem.Subject := 'This is a test subject';
recTempEmailItem.SetBodyText('This is a test body.<br>This is Line 2.');
recTempEmailItem.Insert();
recTempEmailItem.Send(true, "Email Scenario"::Default);

end;

How do I set the From Address at runtime in an AL extension?

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Nitin Verma 21,698 Moderator on at

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Hi,

yes in the BC if we are creating an email and sending with new email features in general we don’t have any option to modify send from address, as it pick up the from addresses from the default email account setup.

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Nitin Verma 21,698 Moderator on at

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You can also use the email scenarios which are ready to extend.

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YUN ZHU 95,331 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, I checked the source code and it looks like the "From Address" is retrieved in the Send() function.

So, as Nitin mentioned, you should manage "From Address" in Email Scenario feature.

More details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/admin-how-setup-email#assign-email-scenarios-to-email-accounts

Hope this helps as well.

Thanks.

ZHU

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Nick Webb 891 on at

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Thanks all for your help.

So, what if you want to use SMTP but you still want to be able to specify the 'From Address', as we have been able to do up until the last release? The only way I can think to make it work is to create an SMTP Email Account & Scenario for each employee / user, don't specify the 'From Address' in code and pass in the Scenario in the "Email Item".Send method, which will then take the from Address from the Email Account via the scenario. Of course, seeing as the Scenarios are members of an extended Enum, a program change would be required every time a new employee is encountered. Clanky huh? Is there a better way?

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