Paradox and Lotus Notes

[cobweb]

Hi:
We have just migrated to Lotus Notes/Domino from Exchange.
Now my lovely emails of files from Paradox are refused as Paradox 9 does not seem to recognise Notes!
Is anybody aware of this issue and how to resolve it?
Thanks!

 

[footpad]

cobweb,

Notes may be requiring you to log into the email server before accepting MAPI requests.

How are you currently sending mail from Paradox? Can we see some (appropriately massaged) code?

-- Lance

 

[cobweb]

Thanks; here is the code.

VAR
m MAIL
ENDVAR
m.addAddress("bill.gates@microsoft.com")
m.setSubject("Todays Orders")
m.setMessage("Attached are the header and detail orders received by us on the last working day before today")
m.addAttachment("Header.txt")
m.addAttachment("Detail.txt")
m.send()
endMethod

 

[footpad]

cobweb,

Well, that's looks fairly straight-forward.

Oddly, the Mail::send() method doesn't return a value indicating success or failure.

I note the Help topic for send() suggests it may be necessary to call logon() before calling send(); howeer, it appears that logon() doesn't return a value, either.

However, the logonDlg() does return a logical value. So, the following code works on my end:

method run(var eventInfo Event)
var
   m Mail
endVar

   if m.logonDlg() then

      m.addAddress("nouser@example.com")
      m.setSubject("Paradox Mail Test")
      m.setMessage("This is a test of the Paradox 10 Mail type.")
      m.send()
      m.logOff()

   endIf

endMethod

Now, my email server isn't Lotus Notes. I did need to define a profile on my Windows XP box for the currently registered MAPI client, but the dialogs for all of that appeared as expected.

There's an article at dbcommunity though (

http://www.thedbcommunity.com/interact/tt/notesemail.htm),

which links to an IBM article that may help. The IBM article is fairly extensive.

Hope it helps...

-- Lance

 

[cobweb]

Thanks (as usual!), footpad.
You got me on the right track with LogonDlg.
This prompted me to create a new profile; I did, pointing it at Notes...and it works a treat.

Thanks again for all your help.