Lotus Notes - Export emails to plain text file
- by mbeckish
I am setting up a Lotus Notes account to accept emails from a client, and automatically save each email as a plain text file to be processed by another application.
So, I'm trying to create my very first Agent in Lotus to automatically export the emails to text.
Is there a standard, best practices way to do this?
I've created a LotusScript Agent that pretty much works. However, there is a bug - once the Body of the memo exceeds 32K characters, it starts inserting extra CR/LF pairs.
I am using Lotus Notes 7.0.3.
Here is my script:
Sub Initialize
On Error Goto ErrorCleanup
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim uniqueID As Variant
Dim curView As NotesView
Dim docCount As Integer
Dim notesInputFolder As String
Dim notesValidOutputFolder As String
Dim notesErrorOutputFolder As String
Dim outputFolder As String
Dim fileNum As Integer
Dim bodyRichText As NotesRichTextItem
Dim bodyUnformattedText As String
Dim subjectText As NotesItem
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'INPUT OUTPUT LOCATIONS
outputFolder = "\\PASCRIA\CignaDFS\CUser1\Home\mikebec\MyDocuments\"
notesInputFolder = "IBEmails"
notesValidOutputFolder = "IBEmailsDone"
notesErrorOutputFolder="IBEmailsError"
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Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set curview = db.GetView(notesInputFolder )
docCount = curview.EntryCount
Print "NUMBER OF DOCS " & docCount
fileNum = 1
While (docCount > 0)
'set current doc to
Set doc = curview.GetNthDocument(docCount)
Set bodyRichText = doc.GetFirstItem( "Body" )
bodyUnformattedText = bodyRichText.GetUnformattedText()
Set subjectText = doc.GetFirstItem("Subject")
If subjectText.Text = "LotusAgentTest" Then
uniqueID = Evaluate("@Unique")
Open "\\PASCRIA\CignaDFS\CUser1\Home\mikebec\MyDocuments\email_" & uniqueID(0) & ".txt" For Output As fileNum
Print #fileNum, "Subject:" & subjectText.Text
Print #fileNum, "Date:" & Now
Print #fileNum, bodyUnformattedText
Close fileNum
fileNum = fileNum + 1
Call doc.PutInFolder(notesValidOutputFolder)
Call doc.RemoveFromFolder(notesInputFolder)
End If
doccount = doccount-1
Wend
Exit Sub
ErrorCleanup:
Call sendErrorEmail(db,doc.GetItemValue("From")(0))
Call doc.PutInFolder(notesErrorOutputFolder)
Call doc.RemoveFromFolder(notesInputFolder)
End Sub
Update
Apparently the 32KB issue isn't consistent - so far, it's just one document that starts getting extra carriage returns after 32K.
