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 Sub