VBscript for sending mail using SMTP for .mht file attachment - vbscript

I am using Gmail SMTP server to send out a .mht file. once send out, i am getting a lot of attachemnts and the .mht file were loading in the email body (from yahoo mail). Instead in outlook, i am getting it as a mail attachements.
VB script used for this :
Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMessage.HTMLBody = "<h1>Matrikon AM</h1>"
objMessage.Subject = "Test 1 -Blank"
objMessage.From = "xxxxx#gmail.com"
objMessage.To = "xxxxx#yahoo.com"
objMessage.TextBody = "From b.vbs"
objMessage.AddAttachment "c:\xxxxxxx\A1.mht"
objMessage.Send
I had some quick search online that "ContentMediaType" have to be define somewhere since the file extension is .mht.
Need help on this as i could not find a way to define the content-type.
My issue were exactly like mentioned in "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15976836/modifying-the-content-type-of-an-attachment-in-a-cdo-message-object"
thanks.

This is from Help.
urn:schemas:mailheader: Namespace
The urn:schemas:mailheader: namespace defines fields that contain Internet standard message header values. Each field value (with a few exceptions) is stored as US-ASCII characters and is identical to the ASCII string found in the message stream. Non US-ASCII characters are encoded according to the RFC 1522 specification. No conversion is performed when the property value is set or updated. An application that sets the raw message header property must RFC 1522-encode non US-ASCII characters or the header value will be corrupted.
String constants are provided in the C++ header file cdosysstr.h and type library (cdoMailHeader module) for each field name. You can use these constants when referring to the fields to avoid typos and extra typing.
Example
The following example demonstrates use of the fields in the urn:schemas:mailheader: namespace. First, RFC 822 headers are added for a message. Next, body parts are added and the MIME headers set manually.
This code is for illustrative purposes only.
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Dim iMsg as New CDO.Message
Dim Flds as ADODB.Fields
With iMsg
.To = """Someone"" <example#example.com>"
.From = """Me"" <example#example.com>"
.Subject = "Here is a sample message"
' Now set some custom mail headers using the raw fields collection
Set Flds = .Fields
With Flds
.Item("urn:schemas:mailheader:X-Mailer") = "Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000"
' I add a custom header here
.Item("urn:schemas:mailheader:Myheader")= "some value"
.Update
.Resync
End With ' Flds
End With ' iMsg
' Create a multipart/alternative (HTML) message below
Dim iBp as CDO.IBodyPart
Dim iBp2 as CDO.IBodyPart
Set iBp = iMsg ' get IBodyPart on Message object
Set Flds = iBp.Fields
Flds("urn:schemas:mailheader:content-type") = "multipart/alternative"
Flds.Update
Set iBp2 = iBp.AddBodyPart
Set Flds = iBp2.Fields
Flds("urn:schemas:mailheader:content-type") = "text/plain"
Flds("urn:schemas:mailheader:content-transfer-encoding") = "quoted-printable"
Flds.Update
Dim Stm as ADODB.Stream
Set Stm = iBp2.GetDecodedContentStream
Stm.WriteText "This is a test", stWriteLine
Stm.Flush
Set iBp2 = iBp.AddBodyPart
Set Flds = iBp2.Fields
Flds("urn:schemas:mailheader:content-type") = "text/html"
Flds("urn:schemas:mailheader:content-transfer-encoding") = "quoted-printable"
Flds.Update
Set Stm = iBp2.GetDecodedContentStream
Stm.WriteText "This is a <i>test</i>", stWriteLine
Stm.Flush
iMsg.Send

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Spaces and carriage returns are being added to HTML email

We have a server generated HTML file (myFile.html) that we embed in emails that get sent to our clients. We've been using this method for years with minimal issues. We use Windows Server 2012 with smtp server via II6. Recently the HTML is getting skewed in the email. When checking the source file, all looks well. Directly opening the HTML file for viewing in a browser works as you'd expect. Here is the code we're using to read the file into memory to prepare for emailing:
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFilePath)
Do While objFile.AtEndOFStream <>True
line = objFile.ReadLine
If Instr(1, line, "<table") > 0 And strHeaderWritten = "N" Then
strHeaderWritten = "Y"
strFileContent=strFileContent & strHeader
End If
strFileContent=strFileContent & line
Loop
set objFile = Nothing
And then we add the content to the email and send:
strBody = strFileContent
Set objMail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
Set objMail.Configuration = cdoConfig
objMail.From = strFrom
objMail.ReplyTo = strReplyTo
objMail.To = strTo
objMail.Subject = strSubject
objMail.HTMLBody = strBody
objMail.Fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:importance").Value = strImportance
objMail.Send
And here are examples of what it spits out in the email. There are no errors in the source:
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
Been toiling over this for hours looking for an explanation. Thank so much for reading!
I tried using the ADO Stream method for the email, but it is still coming out the same:
Dim objStream
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
objStream.Type = 2 'adTypeText
objStream.CharSet = Application("CharacterSet")
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile strFilePath
Do While Not objStream.EOS
line = objStream.ReadText(-2)
If Instr(1, line, "<table") > 0 And strHeaderWritten = "N" Then
strHeaderWritten = "Y"
strFileContent=strFileContent & strHeader
End If
If Instr(1, line, "< table") > 0 Then
strFileContent=strFileContent & "<h3>Broken HTML</h3>"
End If
strFileContent=strFileContent & line
Loop
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
As you can see, I also added a check for one of the persistent errors I'm seeing where there has been a space inserted between < and table. Checking the output this way did not capture the issue as in checking the text for the added space. So it must be happening after it's been written or I need to use a regex for the test. I'll try that next. I'm still seeing it in multiple email clients. Here's an example post test of ADO Stream:
This seems to be a common problem in CDO. I've found a few references online to the problem that spaces are randomly inserted into the HTMLbody.
One answer was to make the HTML body not one long string, because CDO will then insert random spaces, but to include whitespace yourself, so that CDO doesn't have to.
You could try adding VbCrLf or just plain spaces in the text you're sending.
A second suggestion made more sense to me; this can be an encoding problem. That also explains why adding your own whitespace could be a workaround.
Anyway; CDO allows for setting the encoding of the CDO.Message object before sending.
Try objMail.BodyPart.ContentTransferEncoding = "quoted-printable" to see if that solves it.
The issue is windows use of both line break and carrage return. I recommend loading the body of the text and replacing all instances of vbcrlf with just vblf and you will find you wont have the double spacing anymore.
e.g.
body = replace(body, vbcrlf, vblf)

address error when send email with 32bit outlook using automation

NOTE: edited from original after I discovered the outlook version was 32-bit not 64-bit.
I have a legacy 32-bit VB6 program that uses outlook 2010 32bit (full version, not express) to send email. Works perfect on many machines except one machine with windows 7 (64-bit I assume). Not sure if all windows 7 machines don't work or just this one.
If I use the automation technique or the MAPI technique (as I call them, see code below) outlook sends the email but the mail server kicks it back as undeliverable saying the recipient does not exist.
Now if the automation technique is used outlook displays no UI and the email is sent in the background.
However if the MAPI technique is used outlook opens it's compose email dialog which allows the user to edit the email prior to sending. What is interesting is that the recipient email looks fine but will fail as undeliverable if sent. However if the recipient is deleted and re-typed then the email will succeed. I believe a copy and re-paste works also.
This tells me there must be one or more hidden illegal characters in the recipient email address (nulls perhaps?). The code to do this shown below is very plain and I can't think of any obvious fix. txtTo is a vb6 string with an email address and this is the field that is causing all the problems.
The error message:
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: a test from daryls cpu #2
Sent: 11/17/2017 8:01 PM
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
'someemail#gmail.com' on 11/17/2017 8:01 PM
None of your e-mail accounts could send to this recipient.
Automation Technique
Dim mOutlookApp As Object
Set mOutlookApp = GetObject("", "Outlook.application")
Dim olNs As Object
Set olNs = mOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
olNs.Logon
Dim OutMail As Object
Set OutMail = mOutlookApp.CreateItem(0)
'Set the To and Subject lines. Send the message.
With OutMail
.To = txtTo
.CC = txtCC
.Subject = txtSubjext
.HTMLBody = txtBody & vbCrLf
Dim myAttachments As Object
Set myAttachments = .Attachments
vAttach = Split(mAttachments, ",")
For i = 0 To UBound(vAttach)
myAttachments.add vAttach(i)
Next i
Dim myFolder As Object
Set myFolder = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(5) 'olFolderSent
Set .SaveSentMessageFolder = myFolder
StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = "Status: Sending"
.send
End With
MAPI Technique
'Open up a MAPI session:
With frmMain.MAPISession1
.DownLoadMail = False
.Username = ""
.LogonUI = True
.SignOn
End With
With frmMain.MAPIMessages1
.SessionID = frmMain.MAPISession1.SessionID
.Compose
.MsgIndex = -1
.RecipIndex = 0
.RecipAddress = txtTo
.RecipDisplayName = txtTo
.RecipType = mapToList
If txtCC <> "" Then
.RecipIndex = 1
.RecipDisplayName = txtCC
.RecipAddress = txtCC
.RecipType = mapCcList
End If
'spaces are important! need one space for each attachment
'NOTE .MsgNoteText = " " MUST be there see.. KB173853 in microsoft
.MsgSubject = txtSubjext
.MsgNoteText = Space$(UBound(vAttach) + 1) & vbCrLf
.MsgNoteText = txtBody & vbCrLf
For i = 0 To UBound(vAttach)
.AttachmentIndex = i
.AttachmentPosition = i
.AttachmentType = mapData
.AttachmentName = GetFileFromPath(vAttach(i))
.AttachmentPathName = vAttach(i)
Next i
StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = "Status: Sending"
.send True
End With
More Info:
I'm making some progress. The error has to do with email type in outlook not being SMTP. If on the send-to email in the outlook compose dialog you right-click on the email address then select outlook properties and change the email type to SMTP it will work. The type displayed is the email address itself, valid values seem to be 'mailto' and 'smtp'. So if I can set the email type from vb6 it should fix the error.
The 'Answer'? https://kb.intermedia.net/article/2344
I can't believe there is no fix for this...
RESOLVED!
I realize this topic is most likely of no interest to anyone programming in the 20th century but here is the fix:
.RecipAddress = "SMTP:" & txtTo
It just came to me. :)

How to add default signature and new tables in a new outlook mail by testcomplete

I am trying to send new outlook mail by testcomplete using vb scripting language .In that new mail i want to add new tables and keep default signature at bottom of mail by testcomplete. i am getting VB script run time error when i am using this code..please check the code and suggest me the correct methods i have to use to add new tables and signature
Function SendMail()
Dim objOutLook, NamespaceMAPI,objNewMail, fso, SendReceiveControls
Dim strTo,strCc ,strBcc ,strSubject, AccountName,strAttachmentPath
strSubject="test"
strTo=yyy#yy.com
strCc=XXX#XX.com
strBcc =zzz#zzz.com
strAttachmentPath="c:\text.txt"
Set objOutLook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set NamespaceMAPI = objOutLook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objNewMail = objOutLook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
objOutLook.DisplayAlerts =True
objNewMail.TO = strTo
objNewMail.CC = strCc
objNewMail.BCC=strBcc
objNewMail.Subject = strSubject
objNewMail.Body = strMsg
If strAttachmentPath <> "" Then
Set fso =CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fso.FileExists(strAttachmentPath) Then
objNewMail.Attachments.Add(strAttachmentPath)
objNewMail.GetDefaultsignature() 'script run time error occured here
objNewMail.addtable(4,3)
objNewMail.display
Else
msgbox "Attachment File Does not exists"
End If
End If
objOutLook.Quit
''''''' Releasing objects '''''''
Set objOutLook =Nothing
Set objNewMail = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
End Function
please help me.. thanks in advannce....
See if this or this helps. They are alternative methods to yours.
I prefer to use the 2nd option, the CDO method, you just need to take atention to the fact that usually this email goes to the spam inbox, you need to manually add it to your secure contacts

VBScript and loadXML: Invalid at the top level of the document. How to fix it?

This is my fort post on stackoverflow. I have searched many similiar Q&A's on this site but my conditions seem a bit different. here is my vbscript code:
------------ code snippet ---------------
xmlurl = "songs.xml"
set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.loadXML(xmlurl)
if xmlDoc.parseError.errorcode<>0 then
'error handling code
msgbox("error! " & xmlDoc.parseError.reason)
end if
------------ end code snippet ---------------
XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<nowplaying-info-list>
<nowplaying-info mountName="CKOIFMAAC" timestamp="1339771946" type="track">
<property name="track_artist_name"><![CDATA[CKOI]]></property>
<property name="cue_title"><![CDATA[HITMIX]]></property>
</nowplaying-info>
<nowplaying-info mountName="CKOIFMAAC" timestamp="1339771364" type="track">
<property name="track_artist_name"><![CDATA[AMYLIE]]></property>
<property name="cue_title"><![CDATA[LES FILLES]]></property>
</nowplaying-info>
<nowplaying-info mountName="CKOIFMAAC" timestamp="1339771149" type="track">
<property name="track_artist_name"><![CDATA[MIA MARTINA]]></property>
<property name="cue_title"><![CDATA[TOI ET MOI]]></property>
</nowplaying-info>
</nowplaying-info-list>
I also tried removing the first line in case maybe UTF-8 was not compatible with windows (saw some posts about this), but I still got the same error. I also tried unix2dos and vice versa in case there were carriage return issues (hidden characters embedded in the xml). I just can't seem to figure out what's wrong. It's such a simole XML file. I could parse it in a few minutes using perl regex but I need to run this script on windows so using vbscript. I use the same technique to parse XML from other sources without any issues. I cannot modify the XML unfortunately, it is from an external source.
I have this exact same error on both my Windows Vista home edition and Windows Server 2008. I am running the vbscript from the command line for testing so far (ie not in ASP).
Thanks in advance,
Sam
xmlDoc.loadXML() can load an XML string. It cannot retrieve a URL.
Use an XMLHTTPRequest object if you need to make an HTTP request.
Function LoadXml(xmlurl)
Dim xmlhttp
Set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.Open "GET", xmlurl, false
' switch to manual error handling
On Error Resume Next
xmlhttp.Send
If err.number <> 0 Then
WScript.Echo xmlhttp.parseError.Reason
Err.Clear
End If
' switch back to automatic error handling
On Error Goto 0
Set LoadXml = xmlhttp.ResponseXml
End Function
Use like
Set doc = LoadXml("http://your.url/here")
Three addition remarks:
(1) As .parseError.reason tends to be cryptic, it pays to include its .srcTxt
property (and the parameter to .loadXml):
Dim xmlurl : xmlurl = "song.xml"
Dim xmlDoc : Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.loadXML xmlurl
If 0 <> xmlDoc.parseError.errorcode Then
WScript.Echo xmlDoc.parseError.reason, "Src:", xmlDoc.parseError.srcText
Else
WScript.Echo "surprise, surprise"
End if
output:
Invalid at the top level of the document.
Src: song.xml
Of course, writing a Function/Sub that takes all properties of .parseError
into account and using that always, would be even better.
(2) To load a file or URL, use .load:
Dim xmlDoc : Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
Dim xmlurl
For Each xmlurl In Array("song.xml", "http://gent/~eh/song.xml", "zilch")
xmlDoc.async = False
if xmlDoc.load(xmlurl) Then
With xmlDoc.documentElement.firstChild
WScript.Echo xmlurl _
, .tagName _
, .firstChild.tagName _
, .firstChild.text
End With
Else
WScript.Echo xmlurl, xmlDoc.parseError.reason, "Src:", xmlDoc.parseError.srcText
End if
Next
output:
song.xml nowplaying-info property CKOI-ÄÖÜ
http://gent/~eh/song.xml nowplaying-info property CKOI-ÄÖÜ
zilch The system cannot locate the object specified.
Src:
(3) Using the DOM avoids all encoding problems (that's why I put some
german umlauts into 'your' file - which even made it to the DOS-Box output)
and makes RegExps (even Perl's) a second best choice.

Sending email from webpage using Outlook

I have a webpage that has a button that sends a letter on the page to an email recipent. Currently we are use Lotus Notes and with VB script, we are able to create an object of Lotus Notes and one of the properties for this object is PutInFolder. After the user clicks on the email button, the script will send the email and also put save the email in a certain folder on the user's computer. Our company is now switching over to Outlook 2007 and I'm looking to do the same thing with an Outlook object instead. Our development is local intranet only, and there are only a few users that will have access to this. Anyway, my problem is I cannot seem to find the same functionality with an Outlook Application.
I do have the send of the email currently working using this logic. Does anyone have any ideas on how to save the email in the user's outlook folder? I tried looking for a list of properties that I can call but I cannot find anything searching. Maybe I don't have the right terminalogy in the searches.
Thank you.
sub send_mailvb(sendto, sendcc, sendbcc, subject_text, body_text, attachment1, attachment2, attachment3)
'Open mail, adress, attach report
dim objOutlk 'Outlook
dim objMail 'Email item
dim strMsg
const olMailItem = 0
'Create a new message
set objOutlk = createobject("Outlook.Application")
set objMail = objOutlk.createitem(olMailItem)
' Setup send to
objMail.To = sendto
' Setup send cc
If sendcc <> "" Then
objMail.cc = sendcc
End If
' Setup send bcc
If sendbcc <> "" Then
objMail.bcc = sendbcc
End If
'Set up Subject Line
objMail.subject = subject_text
'Add the body
strMsg = body_text & vbcrlf
'Add an attachments
If attachment1 <> "" Then
objMail.attachments.add(attachment1)
End If
If attachment2 <> "" Then
objMail.attachments.add(attachment2)
End If
If attachment3 <> "" Then
objMail.attachments.add(attachment3)
End If
objMail.body = strMsg
objMail.display 'Use this to display before sending, otherwise call objMail.Send to send without reviewing
'Clean up
set objMail = nothing
set objOutlk = nothing
End Sub
For future reference... I found the solution I was looking for. It wasn't too bad of a mess. Here's the modified source to replicate the Send and save email to a specific folder incase someone else comes looking. Thanks to Tester101 for the website I was looking for. Again this is vbscript imbedded in the HTML page.
sub send_mailvb(sendto, sendcc, sendbcc, subject_text, body_text, attachment1, attachment2, attachment3)
'Open mail, adress, attach report
dim objOutlk 'Outlook
dim objMail 'Email item
dim strMsg
dim myInbox
const olMailItem = 0
'Create a new message
set objOutlk = createobject("Outlook.Application")
Set objNameSpace = objOutlk.Session
set objMail = objOutlk.createitem(olMailItem)
Set myNameSpace = objOutlk.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myExplorer = objOutlk.ActiveExplorer
' 6 at least on my machine pointed to the Inbox (should be the same as constant olFolderInbox). Within the Inbox I have a folder called Test
Set myExplorer.CurrentFolder = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(6).Folders("Test")
Set myFolder = myExplorer.CurrentFolder
' Setup send to
objMail.To = sendto
' Setup send cc
If sendcc "" Then
objMail.cc = sendcc
End If
' Setup send bcc
If sendbcc "" Then
objMail.bcc = sendbcc
End If
'Set up Subject Line
objMail.subject = subject_text
'Add the body
strMsg = body_text & vbcrlf
'Add an attachments
If attachment1 "" Then
objMail.attachments.add(attachment1)
End If
If attachment2 "" Then
objMail.attachments.add(attachment2)
End If
If attachment3 "" Then
objMail.attachments.add(attachment3)
End If
objMail.body = strMsg
// objMail.display 'Use this to display before sending, otherwise call objMail.Send to send without reviewing
objMail.Save
objMail.Move(myFolder)
objMail.Send
'Clean up
set objMail = nothing
set objOutlk = nothing
End Sub
I found this article. It might be something tha could help.
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail_print.aspx?id=1041
If not this site has great resources for working with outlook.
It looks like the MailItem object has a Save method, as well as a SaveAs method. So you should be able to do something like this.
objMail.SaveAs "C:\Test.msg", 3
The 3 is to save the message in olMSG format see OlSaveAsType Enumeration.
I have a solution. We've decided to bcc the person sending the email and then use an outlook rule to move the email to the specified outlook folder. Thanks to everyone that replied.

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