Comments on: Sending an email with a custom “sender” with Lotus Notes/Domino

By: Joseph Hoetzl

Joseph Hoetzl — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:42:00 +0000

I’m not sure if you mean that you just want a link to a notes document, in the typical fashion, or, you want the document as an actual attachment as it’s contents.If you just want a link to the Notes document, get a handle to the notes document you want to attach, and get the doc id and replica id of the database it is stored in, and create an anchor tag “a href= to a notes:// style link The format is:notes://servername/db/view/docwhere db can be either the Replica ID (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!) or the actual filepath/name; view and doc can be either the real names or aliases or UNID, which can all be obtained by parsing however you are getting a handle to the NotesDocument.Or, you can attachment any kind of document to a MIME mail by adding in a child entity (CreateChildEntity()) to the main body, set the header to a content-type with a value of mulitpart/mixed, set a content-disposition to attachment;yourfilename, set a content-ID to the same, create a stream, pull in that file as binary, in the child, do a SetContentFromBytes of that stream, setting the correct mime type – e.g. application/pdf or image/gif,close the stream and put all this before you fire off the final send. Hopefully that sets you on the right path, if not, have a look in the v6 forums – http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/Search?SearchView&Query=n%3Ftes%3A//&SearchOrder=0&Start=1&Count=100 for the notes:// stuff, or search for mime types, and/or content disposition and ENC_IDENTITY_BINARY.

By: Guru

Guru — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:06:00 +0000

Great Work. How to add a notes document attachment. I tried and I was not able to accomplish this. It is Ok for me if it does not display in HTML. I want it in notes

Guru

By: Joseph Hoetzl

Joseph Hoetzl — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:21:55 +0000

The @NotesDomain lets the router know the address is an internal one. Similar to using CN/OU/O format, but in “internet address” style.

Yes, once you save it in the mail.box, the router treats it just as if a mail arrived into the box through “normal” means”

Thanks – glad it could help!

By: Kris Mitchell

Kris Mitchell — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:31:35 +0000

What is the @NotesDomain at the end of the SenderN used for?

Does the mail get removed from the mail box once it's saved and picked up by the router?

Nice work! I've been looking for this (or another solution) for a while.

By: Joseph Hoetzl

Joseph Hoetzl — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:29:13 +0000

Sorry about that - will fix the code. "From" is a reserved word, and in my haste to ambiguate the code a bit, I used it.

If you change it to sender or just about anything else, it should work.

I change the code above from this:

Dim from As String
'the address you want the mail to appear to be from
from = "FirstName LastName "
...
Call mail.replaceItemValue("From", from )
Call mail.replaceItemValue("InetFrom", from )

to:

Dim Sender As String, SenderN As String
Sender = "FName LName "
SenderN = "FName LName "
Call mail.replaceItemValue( "From", SenderN )
Call mail.replaceItemValue( "InetFrom", Sender )

As for the "icons" issue, you need to use a fully qualified path to it, since this is an email, not a webpage, it has no relative paths. Again, I'll update the code and comment it, but for now you need to use something like:

Or, since I don't like to use the "stock" Domino directories for stuff like this, I simply have an "images" directory under my datadominohtml folder and then I use paths like:

Glad you were able to make use of this!

By: murraycroft

murraycroft — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:45:03 +0000

Hi Joseph -- I have been struggling to get a MIME email code to work and finally -- with some modification you example above is working -- thanks. I had tried the IBM example code but that was failing -- the send to being converted as <murraycroft@oakmont.co.uk> rather than murraycroft@oakmont.co.uk and our Domino SMTP failed.
Couple problems I am having with you example code.

1. The "from As String" errors when compiled in Lotusscript. My workaround was to remove the from variables and enter the values directly in the Call Replace Item values.

2. I can't seem to get the header logo to work. What is the correct path to be used. I had expected "/icons/XYZ.gif" with this being the data/domino/icons folder on the server. ?? What am I missing here as this would be a nice touch.

Finally -- build = Domino 8.0.2, using your example code in a WebQuerySave called agent to send out email alerts in an Project Issues log.

All the best

Murray

By: Joseph Hoetzl

Joseph Hoetzl — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:29:13 +0000

By: murraycroft

murraycroft — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:45:03 +0000