Send mails from Notes - when it is not used for mail

Question

Ok, in these times when some people move from Lotus Notes to Office 365 I have come across a certain requirement...

An older workflow application sends mail to users. This has worked fine for ages. But now we have a new type of users. These users are just using Notes for a couple of old legacy applications like the one in question.

The error we get is:

File does not exist

And the code that generates it is pretty simple:

Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim rtitem As NotesRichtextItem
Dim doc2 As NotesDocument

Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set doc2 = New NotesDocument(db)
doc2.Form = "Memo"
doc2.Subject = "Test mail " & now
Set rtitem = New NotesRichTextItem (doc2, "Body" )      
Call rtitem.AppendText("A simple test....")
Call rtitem.addnewline(2)
Call rtitem.AppendText("Link to complaint ")
Call doc2.Replaceitemvalue("sendto", "[email protected]")
doc2.Send( False )

It fails when running the last line....

So, the question really is: How can I code around the this issue?

I know there is no mail file for the user - and I would really prefer not to have to create one for the new users.

Thanks in advance!

/John

Answer 1

Ok, I have done some trial & error testing on this....

Conclusion so far is that it works in this situation:

In the LOCAL location document (in names.nsf on the computer) you specify:

1. Mail server - as a server the user can reach
2. Mail "On Server"
3. An existing mail file - it can be ANY existing file on the server, it doesn't have to be a mail database.

Actually, a non-conclusive test indicates the mail database even doesn't have to exist (but the user with the setup for testing had to leave - so I couldn't confirm this tonight...)

Edit:

Further testing indicates that this may not be a problem if the user is NOT roaming. I need some further verification that this is actually the reason why I got it working (for one thing you cannot remove the mail file name again once added)... But thought I would add it here.

Answer 2

Error will appear when user triggering the code doesn't have a mail file specified in person document/location. One option would be to change code to save the new mail directly to server mail.box (assuming server is configured to route mails) or just send the email directly through SMTP using java.