Sending Email from Lotus Notes using Excel and having Attachment & HTML body - html

Question

Right I'm trying to send an Email form an excel spreadsheet though lotus notes, it has an attachment and the body needs to be in HTML.
I've got some code that from all I've read should allow me to do this however it doesn't.
Without the HTML body the attachment will send, when I impliment a HTML body the Email still sends but the attachment dissapears, I've tried rearanging the order of the code cutting out bits that might not be needed but all is invain.
(You need to reference Lotus Domino Objects to run this code.
strEmail is the email addresses
strAttach is the string location of the attachment
strSubject is the subject text
strBody is the body text
)
Sub Send_Lotus_Email(strEmail, strAttach, strSubject, strBody)
Dim noSession As Object, noDatabase As Object, noDocument As Object
Dim obAttachment As Object, EmbedObject As Object
Const EMBED_ATTACHMENT As Long = 1454
Set noSession = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")
Set noDatabase = noSession.GETDATABASE("", "")
'If Lotus Notes is not open then open the mail-part of it.
If noDatabase.IsOpen = False Then noDatabase.OPENMAIL
'Create the e-mail and the attachment.
Set noDocument = noDatabase.CreateDocument
Set obAttachment = noDocument.CreateRichTextItem("strAttach")
Set EmbedObject = obAttachment.EmbedObject(EMBED_ATTACHMENT, "", strAttach)
'Add values to the created e-mail main properties.
With noDocument
.Form = "Memo"
.SendTo = strEmail
'.Body = strBody ' Where to send the body if HTML body isn't used.
.Subject = strSubject
.SaveMessageOnSend = True
End With
noSession.ConvertMIME = False
Set Body = noDocument.CreateMIMEEntity("Body") ' MIMEEntity to support HTML
Set stream = noSession.CreateStream
Call stream.WriteText(strBody) ' Write the body text to the stream
Call Body.SetContentFromText(stream, "text/html;charset=iso-8859-1", ENC_IDENTITY_8BIT)
noSession.ConvertMIME = True
'Send the e-mail.
With noDocument
.PostedDate = Now()
.Send 0, strEmail
End With
'Release objects from the memory.
Set EmbedObject = Nothing
Set obAttachment = Nothing
Set noDocument = Nothing
Set noDatabase = Nothing
Set noSession = Nothing
End Sub
If somone could point me in the right direction I'd be greatly appreciated.
Edit:
I've done a little more investigating and I've found an oddity, if i look at the sent folder the emails all have the paperclip icon of having an attachment even though when you go into the email even in the sent the HTML ones don't show an attachment.

Answer 1

I have managed to solve my own problem.
In teh same way you create a MIME entry and stream in the HTML you need to do the same with the attachment, you also need to put them both inside a MIME entry within the email itself to hold both the HTML and Attachment at the same level otherwise you end up with a situation of the email with the body and a child entry of the attachment which is within another attachment. (it's odd but true)
Thus this is my solution:
Sub Send_Lotus_Email(Addresses, Attach, strSubject, strBody)
'Declare Variables
Dim s As Object
Dim db As Object
Dim body As Object
Dim bodyChild As Object
Dim header As Object
Dim stream As Object
Dim host As String
Dim message As Object
' Notes variables
Set s = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")
Set db = s.CurrentDatabase
Set stream = s.CreateStream
' Turn off auto conversion to rtf
s.ConvertMIME = False
' Create message
Set message = db.CreateDocument
message.Form = "memo"
message.Subject = strSubject
message.SendTo = Addresses
message.SaveMessageOnSend = True
' Create the body to hold HTML and attachment
Set body = message.CreateMIMEEntity
'Child mime entity which is going to contain the HTML which we put in the stream
Set bodyChild = body.CreateChildEntity()
Call stream.WriteText(strBody)
Call bodyChild.SetContentFromText(stream, "text/html;charset=iso-8859-1", ENC_NONE)
Call stream.Close
Call stream.Truncate
' This will run though an array of attachment paths and add them to the email
For i = 0 To UBound(Attach)
strAttach = Attach(i)
If Len(strAttach) > 0 And Len(Dir(strAttach)) > 0 Then
' Get the attachment file name
pos = InStrRev(strAttach, "\")
Filename = Right(strAttach, Len(strAttach) - pos)
'A new child mime entity to hold a file attachment
Set bodyChild = body.CreateChildEntity()
Set header = bodyChild.CreateHeader("Content-Type")
Call header.SetHeaderVal("multipart/mixed")
Set header = bodyChild.CreateHeader("Content-Disposition")
Call header.SetHeaderVal("attachment; filename=" & Filename)
Set header = bodyChild.CreateHeader("Content-ID")
Call header.SetHeaderVal(Filename)
Set stream = s.CreateStream()
If Not stream.Open(strAttach, "binary") Then
MsgBox "Open failed"
End If
If stream.Bytes = 0 Then
MsgBox "File has no content"
End If
Call bodyChild.SetContentFromBytes(stream, "application/msexcel", ENC_IDENTITY_BINARY)' All my attachments are excel this would need changing depensding on your attachments.
End If
Next
'Send the email
Call message.Send(False)
s.ConvertMIME = True ' Restore conversion
End Sub

Answer 2

Here is my actual code. I'm not even using strong type.
Dim mobjNotesSession As Object ' Back-end session reference'
Dim bConvertMime As Boolean
Dim stream As Object
Dim mimeHtmlPart As Object
Const ENC_QUOTED_PRINTABLE = 1726
mobjNotesSession = CreateObject("Lotus.NotesSession")
mobjNotesSession.Initialize()
mobjNotesDatabase = mobjNotesSession.GetDatabase("HQ2", "tim4")
mobjNotesDocument = mobjNotesDatabase.CreateDocument
bConvertMime = mobjNotesSession.ConvertMime
mobjNotesSession.ConvertMime = False
stream = mobjNotesSession.CreateStream()
Call stream.WriteText(txtBody.Text)
mobjNotesBody = mobjNotesDocument.CreateMIMEEntity("Body")
mimeHtmlPart = mobjNotesBody.CreateChildEntity() 'This returns "Type Mismatch" error'
Call mimeHtmlPart.SetContentFromText(stream, "text/html; charset=""iso-8859-1""", ENC_QUOTED_PRINTABLE)
Call stream.Close()
mobjNotesSession.ConvertMime = bConvertMime
Call mobjNotesDocument.CloseMIMEEntities(True, "Body")

Answer 3

No sorry I didn't i was running this in VBA which isn't strong typed so i can get away with not knowing the actual variable type for the body identity. i 've not been able to test this but I belive you need to reset the declarations to
Dim bodyChild As NotesMIMEEntity
this is the one you have trouble with the ones bellow you may find cause problems as well
Dim s As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim body As NotesMIMEEntity
Dim header As NotesMIMEHeader
Dim stream As NotesStream
Dim host As String
Dim message As NotesDocument
Hope this helps