How to send Lotus Notes mail messages with Microsoft Visual Basic

The following Visual Basic code will send a Notes e-mail message. The code includes examples
of code to include an attachment and to save the sent message, which are both optional and
can be removed if desired.

Dim Maildb As Object

Dim MailDoc As Object
Dim Body As Object
Dim Session As Object
'Start a session to notes
Set Session = CreateObject("Lotus.NotesSession")
'This line prompts for password of current ID noted in Notes.INI
Call Session.Initialize
'or use below to supply password of the current ID
'Call Session.Initialize("")
'Open the mail database in notes
Set Maildb = Session.GETDATABASE("", "c:\notes\data\mail\mymail.nsf")
If Not Maildb.IsOpen = True Then
Call Maildb.Open
End If
'Create the mail document
Set MailDoc = Maildb.CREATEDOCUMENT
Call MailDoc.ReplaceItemValue("Form", "Memo")
'Set the recipient
Call MailDoc.ReplaceItemValue("SendTo", "John Doe")
'Set subject
Call MailDoc.ReplaceItemValue("Subject", "Subject Text")
'Create and set the Body content
Set Body = MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM("Body")
Call Body.APPENDTEXT("Body text here")
'Example to create an attachment (optional)
Call Body.ADDNEWLINE(2)
Call Body.EMBEDOBJECT(1454, "", "C:\filename", "Attachment")
'Example to save the message (optional)
MailDoc.SAVEMESSAGEONSEND = True
'Send the document
'Gets the mail to appear in the Sent items folder
Call MailDoc.ReplaceItemValue("PostedDate", Now())
Call MailDoc.SEND(False)
'Clean Up
Set Maildb = Nothing
Set MailDoc = Nothing
Set Body = Nothing
Set Session = Nothing

Note: The Visual Basic programmer needs to set the Reference to use Lotus Domino objects
prior to implementing this function. To enable the Lotus Notes classes to appear in the Visual
Basic browser, you must execute the following within VB: Select Tools, References and select
the checkbox for 'Lotus Notes Automation Classes'.

The above code is from the IBM support. GETDATABASE given here is pointing to the sample
MailDB; you need to change that to your DB.

You can do that by

UserName = Session.UserName
MailDbName = Left$(UserName, 1) & Right$(UserName, (Len(UserName) - InStr(1, UserName, "
"))) & ".nsf"
'Open the mail database in notes
Set Maildb = Session.GETDATABASE("", MailDbName)

To send it through Microsoft Outlook refer http://vbadud.blogspot.com/2007/04/vba-email-

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