Send an email from access via Lotus iNotes installed on intranet - email

Question

I just need to be pointed in the right direction, on how
to send an email using VBA. I have Lotus as an email system which is embedded into our intranet system.
As a try, this code prepares an email and send it via Lotus (installed on pc) :
Dim ns As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim sender, recipient As String
'sender = Forms![LogIn]![TxtEmail]
If (Not IsNull(DLookup("Email", "Users", "UserName ='" & Me.Affectation.Value & "'"))) Then
recipient = DLookup("Email", "Users", "UserName ='" & Me.Affectation.Value & "'")
MsgBox "recipient *" & recipient & "*"
Else
MsgBox " recipient null"
End If
If Not (ns Is Nothing) Then
Call ns.InitializeUsingNotesUserName("CN=MyuserName/O=Cmpany", "password")
Set db = ns.GetDatabase("ServerName", "mail\MyuserName.nsf", False)
If (Not (db Is Nothing)) Then
Set doc = db.CreateDocument()
doc.Form = "Memo"
doc.SendTo = recipient
doc.subject = "Email Subject"
Dim rt As NotesRichTextItem
Set rt = doc.CreateRichTextItem("Body")
rt.AppendText ("Body text")
doc.Send (False)
Set rt = Nothing
Set doc = Nothing
MsgBox "Message Sent."
Else
MsgBox "db Is Nothing"
End If
Set db = Nothing
Set ns = Nothing
Else
MsgBox "ns Is Nothing"
End If
My question here is how set this code to make the target Lotus the one on our intranet: my login is such "39398C#mycompany.com" and the application is accessed by "http://mail.mycompany.com/mail/username.nsf..."

Answer 1

Unfortunately this is not possible this way. This "embedded" Lotus Notes as you call it is a simple website. It is called "iNotes" and does not have any dlls installed on your client (unless you install the ActiveX control for IE, but that does not help anything with your problem).
For sending eMails via iNotes you need a complete new method and you need your Domino administrator to help you with it: You could either use a webservice to send your mail (this has to be enabled on the server) or you can use DIIOP (again: DIIOP- Task has to be loaded on server).
To at least compose an email, you could use the mailto: protocol, but you need to set iNotes to be your mailto- protocol- handler:
Open Internet Explorer browser and log into iNotes (http://mail.mycompany.com/mail/username.nsf). Please note that this option is not available at this time to Firefox browser users.
Click the "Preferences" button located in the top right corner.
Find "Default Mail Client" section on the "Basics" tab of the iNotes preferences.
Click the button "Make Default".
Using this approach you cannot send the mail directly but need the user to press "Send".

Answer 2

I am not sure what you mean by "I have Lotus as an email system which is embedded into our intranet system".
You need the Notes client installed locally to be able to use COM in your own code. Use the ID file (must be local in the Notes Data directory) for your corporate account amd point to the server on the network for your mailfile.
But you can't point your program to a iNotes instance on a web server, it has to be on a Domino server accessed with a Notes client.
What you could do is to create a new web application on the server, where you have an agent that will read HTTP POST data, create an email and send it out.
Then you simply make a HTTP post from your application.
Here are a couple of blog entries I wrote that might help you:
http://blog.texasswede.com/free-code-class-to-read-url-name-value-pairs/
http://blog.texasswede.com/parse-url-in-domino-agent/

Answer 3

You should probably change your code to send mail via SMTP instead of using the Notes API objects. Microsoft provides an object model called CDO that I think will help you. See the answer to theis question for details. You will just need the hostname or IP address information to connect to a Domino server in your infrastructure that supports inbound SMTP.

Answer 4

Not sure about it, because that code is pretty old as we know use Outlook and I haven't use it in a long while, but that might be some insight :
I seem to remember that if you add doc.From = ns.CommonUserName, this will choose your session automatically!
And the full code :
Dim session As Object
Dim db As Object
Dim doc As Object
Dim attachme As Object
Dim EmbedObj As Object
Dim attachment() As String
Dim i As Integer
Set session = CreateObject("notes.notessession")
Set db = session.GetDatabase("", "")
Call db.OPENMAIL
Set doc = db.CreateDocument
With doc
.Form = "Memo"
.sendto = MailDestinataire
'.copyto = MailDestinataire2
.Subject = Sujet
.Body = CorpsMessage
.From = session.CommonUserName
.posteddate = Now
.SaveMessageOnSend = True
End With