Here's a copy of a posting from a few years back, don't ask me to explain
any of the code because I've not used it since and I found the whole
experience made my head hurt:

Well the short answer is yes but it isnt easy at all.  I got this code from

the net which may be of help.  I have actually got this code to work but it

is very flakey in terms of reliability.

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Lotus Notes from VB or VBA

   This piece of code shows you how to mail direct from VBA into lotus

notes. Requires Lotus Notes Client 4.5.x or later is installed on your

system.

   As far as I can tell the Lotus Notes objects all have to be late bound

otherwise you get errors. I have never found out the reason for this (the

only thing I can think of is there is an error in the lotus notes api). Feel

free to use this code, but if you do you it, I would appreciate a link from

your site if you have one.

Point of note. Certain versions of 4.x client handle differently. If you get

an error about object already exists, or two attachments instead of one, you

will need to comment out the line that reads   MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM

("Attachment"). In later versions of notes API this task is carried out by

the previous line.

'Public Sub SendNotesMail(Subject as string, attachment as string,

'recipient as string, bodytext as string,saveit as Boolean)

'This public sub will send a mail and attachment if neccessary to the

'recipient including the body text.

'Requires that notes client is installed on the system.

Public Sub SendNotesMail(Subject As String, Attachment As String, Recipient

As String, BodyText As String, SaveIt As Boolean)

'Set up the objects required for Automation into lotus notes

   Dim Maildb As Object 'The mail database

   Dim UserName As String 'The current users notes name

   Dim MailDbName As String 'THe current users notes mail database name

   Dim MailDoc As Object 'The mail document itself

   Dim AttachME As Object 'The attachment richtextfile object

   Dim Session As Object 'The notes session

   Dim EmbedObj As Object 'The embedded object (Attachment)

   'Start a session to notes

   Set Session = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")

   'Get the sessions username and then calculate the mail file name

   'You may or may not need this as for MailDBname with some systems you

   'can pass an empty string

   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)

    If Maildb.ISOPEN = True Then

         'Already open for mail

    Else

        Maildb.OPENMAIL

    End If

   'Set up the new mail document

   Set MailDoc = Maildb.CREATEDOCUMENT

   MailDoc.Form = "Memo"

   MailDoc.sendto = Recipient

   MailDoc.Subject = Subject

   MailDoc.Body = BodyText

   MailDoc.SAVEMESSAGEONSEND = SaveIt

   'Set up the embedded object and attachment and attach it

   If Attachment <> "" Then

       Set AttachME = MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM("Attachment")

       Set EmbedObj = AttachME.EMBEDOBJECT(1454, "", Attachment,

"Attachment")

       MailDoc.CREATERICHTEXTITEM ("Attachment")

   End If

   'Send the document

   MailDoc.PostedDate=Now() 'Gets the mail to appear in the sent items

folder

   MailDoc.SEND 0, Recipient

   'Clean Up

   Set Maildb = Nothing

   Set MailDoc = Nothing

   Set AttachME = Nothing

   Set Session = Nothing

   Set EmbedObj = Nothing

End Sub

If you want to send a message to more than one person or copy or blind

carbon copy the following may be of use to you.

MailDoc.sendto = Recipient

MailDoc.CopyTo = ccRecipient

MailDoc.BlindCopyTo = bccRecipient

Also for multiple email addresses you just set MailDoc.sendto to an array of

variants each of which will receive the message. So

Dim recip(25) as variant

recip(0) = "emailaddress1"

recip(1) = "emailaddress2" e.t.c

maildoc.sendto = recip

Thanks must go out to

Mark Austin, Long Beach, California

assisted by the great folks at

www.deja.com & www.notes.net

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I also found this which uses SendObject but i have never tried it and so

dont know how good it is.

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The following code snippet should send an Email via Lotus Notes from within

Access without using SendObject

Dim notesdb As Object

Dim notesdoc As Object

Dim notesrtf As Object

Dim notessession As Object

Set notessession = CreateObject("Notes.Notessession")

Set notesdb = notessession.getdatabase("", "")

Call notesdb.openmail

Rem make new mail message

Set notesdoc = notesdb.createdocument

Call notesdoc.replaceitemvalue("Sendto", strSupportEMail)

Call notesdoc.replaceitemvalue("Subject", "Problem Report")

Set notesrtf = notesdoc.createrichtextitem("body")

Call notesrtf.appendtext("Problem Report")

Call notesrtf.addnewline(2)

Rem attach Error Report doc

's = ActiveDocument.Path + "\" + ActiveDocument.Name

Call notesrtf.embedObject(1454, "", strCurrentPath, "Mail.rtf")

Rem send message

Call notesdoc.Send(False)

Set notessession = Nothing

GB located the following snippet for passing the password.

Dim MailPassword As String

Dim lnSession As NotesSession

Set lnSession = CreateObject("Lotus.NotesSession")

Call lnSession.Initialize(MailPassword)

hi,

Try this one:

Private Function SendMail(ASendTo As String, ASendToName As String,
ABody As String) As Boolean

'  On Local Error GoTo LocalError

  Dim Subject As String
  Dim Recipient As String
  Dim BodyText As String

  Dim Maildb As Object 'The mail database
  Dim UserName As String 'The current users notes name
  Dim MailDbName As String 'The current users notes mail database name
  Dim MailDoc As Object 'The mail document itself
  Dim Session As Object 'The notes session
  Dim EmbedObj As Object 'The embedded object (Attachment)

  SendMail = False

  'Start a session to notes
  Set Session = CreateObject("Notes.NotesSession")

  'Next line only works with 5.x and above. Replace password with your
password
  'Session.Initialize ("password")

  'Get the sessions username and then calculate the mail file name
  'You may or may not need this as for MailDBname with some systems you
  'can pass an empty string or using above password you can use other
mailboxes.
  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)
  If Maildb.IsOpen = False Then
     Maildb.OPENMAIL
  End If

  'Set up the new mail document
  Set MailDoc = Maildb.CreateDocument
  MailDoc.Form = "Memo"
  MailDoc.SendTo = ASendTo
  MailDoc.Subject = "Info"
  MailDoc.Body = "texte "
  End If

  MailDoc.SaveMessageOnSend = True

  MailDoc.PostedDate = Now() 'Gets the mail to appear in the sent items
folder
  MailDoc.Send 0, Recipient

  Set Maildb = Nothing
  Set MailDoc = Nothing
  Set Session = Nothing
  Set EmbedObj = Nothing

  SendMail = True
  Exit Function

LocalError:
  SendMail = False

End Function

mfG
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