I am using a VBA function in an Access database to call Lotus Notes to send automated emails to customers. The emails are being sent from the users personal Lotus account so that they have a history of the sent emails in their Sent items. However, I don't want the customers to see our internal email addresses.
We are instructing the customers not to reply to the email (call us instead) and want the email to appear to be from noreply@company.com. I am able to set the 'ReplyTo' field to something like noreply@company.com which works if the customer replies to the email but the 'From' field still appears to be coming from the users real email address and the customer would be able to see that information and still send an email to our address.
I have tried setting the following properties, but they don't seem to work:
.DisplaySent = "noreply@company.com"
.iNetFrom = "noreply@company.com"
.iNetPrincipal = "noreply@company.com"
(I currently have these commented out in the below VBA because they didn't seem to have any effect)
Below is the VBA I am using. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Public Sub SendNotesMail(Subject As String, Attachment As String, Recipient As Variant, 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")
'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 = True Then
'Already open for mail
Else
Maildb.OPENMAIL
End If
'Set up the new mail document
Set MailDoc = Maildb.CREATEDOCUMENT
MailDoc.principal = "noreply@company.com"
MailDoc.ReplyTo = "noreply@company.com"
'MailDoc.DisplaySent = "noreply@company.com"
'MailDoc.iNetFrom = "noreply@company.com"
'MailDoc.iNetPrincipal = "noreply@company.com"
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