Sending formatted Lotus Notes rich text email from Excel VBA
I have little Lotus Script or Notes/Domino knowledge but I have a procedure, copied from somewhere a long time ago, that allows me to email through Notes from VBA. I normally only use this for internal notifications where the formatting hasn't really mattered.
I now want to use this to send external emails to a client, and corporate types would rather the email complied with our style guide (a sans-serif typeface basically).
I was about to tell them that the code only works with plain text, but then I noticed that the routine does reference some sort of CREATERICHTEXTITEM object. Does this mean I could apply some sort of formatting to the body text string after it has been passed to the mail routine? As well as upholding our precious brand values, this would be quite handy to me for highlighting certain passages in the email.
I've had a dig about the 'net to see if this code could be adapted, but being unfamiliar with Notes' object model, and the fact that online Notes resources seem to mirror the application's own obtuseness, meant I didn't get very far.
The code:
Sub sendEmail(EmailSubject As String, EMailSendTo As String, EMailBody As String, MailServer as String)
Dim objNotesSession As Object
Dim objNotesMailFile As Object
Dim objNotesDocument As Object
Dim objNotesField As Object
Dim sendmail As Boolean
'added for integration into reporting tool
Dim dbString As String
dbString = "mail" & Application.UserName & ".nsf"
On Error GoTo SendMailError
'Establish Connection to Notes
Set objNotesSession = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")
On Error Resume Next
'Establish Connection to Mail File
Set objNotesMailFile = objNotesSession.GETDATABASE(MailServer, dbString)
'Open Mail
objNotesMailFile.OPENMAIL
On Error GoTo 0
'Create New Memo
Set objNotesDocument = objNotesMailFile.createdocument
Dim oWorkSpace As Object, oUIdoc As Object
Set oWorkSpace = CreateObject("Notes.NotesUIWorkspace")
Set oUIdoc = oWorkSpace.CurrentDocument
'Create 'Subject Field'
Set objNotesField = objNotesDocument.APPENDITEMVALUE("Subject", EmailSubject)
'Create 'Send To' Field
Set objNotesField = objNotesDocument.APPENDITEMVALUE("SendTo", EMailSendTo)
'Create 'Copy To' Field
Set objNotesField = objNotesDocument.APPENDITEMVALUE("CopyTo", EMailCCTo)
'Create 'Blind Copy To' Field
Set objNotesField = objNotesDocument.APPENDITEMVALUE("BlindCopyTo", EMailBCCTo)
'Create 'Body' of memo
Set objNotesField = objNotesDocument.CREATERICHTEXTITEM("Body")
With objNotesField
.APPENDTEXT emailBody
.ADDNEWLINE 1
End With
'Send the e-mail
Call objNotesDocument.Save(True, False, False)
objNotesDocument.SaveMessageOnSend = True
'objNotesDocument.Save
objNotesDocument.Send (0)
'Release storage
Set objNotesSession = Nothing
Set objNotesMailFile = Nothing
Set objNotesDocument = Nothing
Set objNotesField = Nothing
'Set return code
sendmail = True
Exit Sub
SendMailError:
Dim Msg
Msg = "Error # " & Str(Err.Number) & " was generated by " _
& Err.Source & Chr(13) & Err.Description
MsgBox Msg, , "Error", Err.HelpFile, Err.HelpContext
sendmail = False
End SubThe short answer is Yes. The long answer is painful. There aren't any great classes exposed to manipulate rich text items in Notes. However a few that you can research are the NotesRichTextStyle, NotesRichTextParagraphStyle, and NotesRichTextTable to name a few. These classes help you define some rich text elements and add them programmatically to your rich text field.
Another approach, since you're sending email, is to use the NotesMIMEEntity classes and build the email using HTML (way way easier). Here's some sample code:
Set s = New NotesSession
Dim docMail As NotesDocument
Dim body As NotesMIMEEntity
Dim stream As NotesStream
Set db = s.CurrentDatabase
s.ConvertMIME = False ' Do not convert MIME to rich text
'Create email to be sent
Set docMail = db.CreateDocument
With docMail
.SendTo = SEND TO ADDRESS
.From = FROM ADDRESS
.Principal = FROM ADDRESS
.ReplyTo = REPLY TO ADDRESS
.Subject = SUBJECT
.Form = "Memo"
End With
Set stream = s.CreateStream
Set body = docMail.CreateMIMEEntity
Call stream.WriteText ("YOUR HTML CODE GOES HERE")
'ENC_IDENTITY_8BIT used because of technote found on notes.net
'http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/aeedaf28e47546ad85256f6a000a4b48?OpenDocument
Call body.SetContentFromText (stream, "text/html;charset=iso-8859-1",ENC_IDENTITY_8BIT)
Call docMail.Send(False)
Set docMail = Nothing
Set body = Nothing
Set stream = Nothing
s.ConvertMIME = True ' Restore conversion
Essentially you'll need to turn the ConvertMIME setting off in the NotesSession. Then create a new document, set the mail properties, etc. That part is already in your VBA code. Next, create the MIMEEntity and a stream to hold your HTML text. Finally call the SetContentFromText method on your MIMEEntity object. Then send your email. Note the last call is to turn the ConvertMIME feature back on for the NotesSession.
I'm not sure if this will all work via COM, but it does work well in LotusScript agents in Notes.
I hope this helps!
要更改其来源，请创建一个通用Notes标识（例如自动发送/您的公司）并使用该标识保存该代理。
I like it just the way it is. However, I had to change dbString = "mail" & Application.UserName & ".nsf" to dbString = "mail" & Application.CurrentUser & ".nsf"
First comment: I wish I didn't have to have Lotus Notes open at the time of sending.
Second comment: I wish I could change who the e-mail is from (ie, if I'm sending a report to 50 people, I want it to be from a generic address, rather than my work address)
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