Has anyone been able to use Excel to send an e-mail when
Lotus Notes is your e-mail system ?

I can get a new memo to come up with the correct address
within it, but I have not been able to populate the
subject or the message body.

Ultimately, what I want to be able to do is to walk down a
list of 500 names, and send each one an e-mail with the
same subject matter, and text, and then attach a small
Excel template to the mail.

I am told that we will move to MS exchange at some point -
but this has been tehcase for over a year !!

Any help would be gratefully received.

Try this - I have used Lotus Notes at several client sites and this has
worked for me with little or no amendment (watch out for line wrapping):

Dim objNotesSession As Object
Dim objNotesMailFile As Object
Dim objNotesDocument As Object
Dim objNotesField As Object

Function SendMail()

On Error GoTo SendMailError

EMailSendTo = " '' Required - Send to address
EMailCCTo = "" '' Optional
EMailBCCTo = "" '' Optional

''Establish Connection to Notes
Set objNotesSession = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")

''Establish Connection to Mail File
'' .GETDATABASE("SERVER", "FILE")
Set objNotesMailFile = objNotesSession.GETDATABASE("", "")
''Open Mail
objNotesMailFile.OPENMAIL

''Create New Memo
Set objNotesDocument = objNotesMailFile.CREATEDOCUMENT

''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 "This e-mail is generated by an automated process."
.ADDNEWLINE 1
.APPENDTEXT "Please follow established contact procedures should you
have any questions."
.ADDNEWLINE 2
End With

''Attach the file --1454 indicate a file attachment
''objNotesField = objNotesField.EMBEDOBJECT(1454, "", "C:\Temp\test.xls")
objNotesField = objNotesField.EMBEDOBJECT(1454, "", ActiveWorkbook.FullName)

''Send the e-mail
objNotesDocument.Send (0)

''Release storage
Set objNotesSession = Nothing
Set bjNotesSession = Nothing
Set objNotesMailFile = Nothing
Set objNotesDocument = Nothing
Set objNotesField = Nothing

''Set return code
SendMail = True

Exit Function

SendMailError:
Msg = "Error # " & Str(Err.Number) & " was generated by " _
& Err.Source & Chr(13) & Err.Description
MsgBox Msg, , "Error", Err.HelpFile, Err.HelpContext

SendMail = False

End Function


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Regards
Andy Wiggins
www.BygSoftware.com
Home of "Save and BackUp",
"The Excel Auditor" and "Byg Tools for VBA"



"Alan Hutchins" wrote in message
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Has anyone been able to use Excel to send an e-mail when
Lotus Notes is your e-mail system ?

I can get a new memo to come up with the correct address
within it, but I have not been able to populate the
subject or the message body.

Ultimately, what I want to be able to do is to walk down a
list of 500 names, and send each one an e-mail with the
same subject matter, and text, and then attach a small
Excel template to the mail.

I am told that we will move to MS exchange at some point -
but this has been tehcase for over a year !!

Any help would be gratefully received.