To connect to Lotus Notes email client via VB

[cdls]

Hi,
I need to connect to Lotus Notes email client through VB and embed a document in RTF/HTML format and send the mail.It is possible to connect to Microsoft outlook through micrsofot outlook component. Can anybody can help me out? Are there any components available through which I can connect to lotus notes email client s/w and also emebed a document in HTML or RTF format?

Thanks in advance.

 

[woyler]

Make a reference to Lotus Notes Automation classes and
include this in a module:

Public Sub SendNotesMail(Subject As String, Attachment As String, _
Recipient01, Recipient02, BodyText As String, SaveIt As Boolean)
'Set up the objects required for Automation into lotus notes
Dim Maildb As Object 'The mail database
Dim UserName As String 'The current users notes name
Dim MailDbName As String 'THe current users notes mail database name
Dim MailDoc As Object 'The mail document itself
Dim AttachME As Object 'The attachment richtextfile object
Dim Session As Object 'The notes session
Dim EmbedObj As Object 'The embedded object (Attachment)
'Start a session to notes
Set Session = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession&quot
'Get the sessions username and then calculate the mail file name
'You may or may not need this as for MailDBname with some systems you
'can pass an empty string
UserName = Session.UserName
MailDbName = Left$(UserName, 1) & Right$(UserName, (Len(UserName) - InStr(1, UserName, " &quot)) & ".nsf"
'Open the mail database in notes
Set Maildb = Session.GETDATABASE("", MailDbName)
If Maildb.ISOPEN = True Then
'Already open for mail
Else
Maildb.OPENMAIL
End If
'Set up the new mail document
Set MailDoc = Maildb.CREATEDOCUMENT
MailDoc.Form = "Memo"
MailDoc.sendto = Recipient01
MailDoc.sendto = Recipient02
MailDoc.Subject = Subject
MailDoc.Body = BodyText
MailDoc.SAVEMESSAGEONSEND = SaveIt
'Set up the embedded object and attachment and attach it
If Attachment <> &quot;&quot; Then
Set AttachME = MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM(&quot;Attachment&quot
Set EmbedObj = AttachME.EMBEDOBJECT(1454, &quot;&quot;, Attachment, &quot;Attachment&quot
' MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM (&quot;Attachment&quot
End If
'Send the document
MailDoc.SEND 0, Recipient01
MailDoc.SEND 0, Recipient02
'Clean Up
Set Maildb = Nothing
Set MailDoc = Nothing
Set AttachME = Nothing
Set Session = Nothing
Set EmbedObj = Nothing

End Sub


Send the mail using ths code:

Dim sAttach As String
Dim sBody As String
Dim sSubject As String
Dim sRecip As String
Dim sRecip02 As String

sAttach = &quot;&quot; 'file attachments here
sBody = &quot;This is the body&quot;
sSubject = &quot;Here is my subject&quot;
sRecip = &quot;someone@email.com&quot;
sRecip02 = &quot;someoneelse@email.com&quot;'multi recipients

SendNotesMail sSubject, sAttach, sRecip, sRecip02,
sBody, False

 

[cdls]

Thanks a lot. It did work and it helped me a lot.
I executed the code an dI received the email with an RTF attachment. Is it possible to embed the RTF attachment in the email body instead of showing it as an attachment?(like copying and pasting an pbject into the email body) I saw that you had used the following code
Set AttachME = MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM(&quot;Attachment&quot
Set EmbedObj = AttachME.EMBEDOBJECT(1454, &quot;&quot;, Attachment, &quot;Attachment&quot

- Can you tell me what does &quot;Attachment&quot; in the first line means?
- Also what the number 1454 in the second line means

Or if you can tell where can I find the help of Lotus Notes Automation class to know more about its components, properties and methods etc it would be very helpful.
Thanks a lot once again for taking trouble to give the code.