I know that I can assign the email subject, but can I designate what is to appear in the email body? If so how?

Hi,

Take a look at the newFax.Attachments.AddNativeDocument signature, at least in v8.7 it has a boolean .IsDocumentMailBody parm.

Greg

Did either of you get this to work? My email goes thru properly and gets sent, but it is always an attachment in the e-mail.. nothing in the body. I used to AddNativeDoc() method with the IsDocumentMailBody parameter = true, but didn't seem to make any difference for me. I tried with a word doc and a pcl file..

thanks

I had the same experience. This appears to allow you to have a document type that is supported by the conversion process be emailed without conversion.

This will only work with HTML and/or Text documents, those that can be rendered by most mail readers. Possibly RTF but that is dependant on the mail reader the recipient is using and I have not tested this format.

Typically, if they cannot render the body it will be added as a normal attachment.

I tried a .txt and .htm file but still no luck, it just appears as a regular file attachment.. are there any specific rightfax components required for this to function?

here is the code i am using to create and send the email:

fax = svr.CreateObject2("SJDUNNE", RFCOMAPILib.CreateObjectType.coFax)

fax.IsINLJob = RFCOMAPILib.BoolType.True
fax.IsProductionFax = RFCOMAPILib.BoolType.True
fax.EmailSubject = txtSubject.Text

'-- COVER PAGE
'fax.OriginalFCSFilename = "rfinvc.pcl"
fax.HasCoversheet = RFCOMAPILib.BoolType.True

'attachment in body
fax.Attachments.AddNativeDocument("c:\\altheim\\rfinvc.txt", "rfinvc.txt", RFCOMAPILib.BoolType.True)


'-- email attachments
For Each row In datAtt.Rows
' fax.Attachments.AddNativeDocument(row("File"), row("File"), RFCOMAPILib.BoolType.False)
Next

'--email recipients
grp = svr.CreateObject2("SJDUNNE", RFCOMAPILib.CreateObjectType.coPhoneItemGroup)
For Each rowv In dv
rcp = svr.CreateObject2("SJDUNNE", RFCOMAPILib.CreateObjectType.coPhoneItemElement)

rcp.IsEmailRecipient = RFCOMAPILib.BoolType.True
rcp.EmailAddress = rowv("Target")
rcp.Name = rowv("Name")
grp.Add(rcp)
Next

fax.Recipients = grp
fax.Send()

I had the same problem. If you leave the optional "FileDescription" property empty, it will put the text from the txt file in the message body. I am still having issues with the html file in that it is inserting the raw html.

That is how most of the mailreaders will render the email, including Outlook ans Outlook Express. The same behaviour can be reproduced by sending an email from FaxUtil and speficying an attachment as both a Native Document and the Email Body.

This is the informational dialog that appears:
~~~
The Alternate Body check box specifies that the attachment is an alternative file format. Alternative file formats can be specified when you want to choose the format that the recipient's e-mail software will display.

For example, you can send a text file and a rich text file. Generally, the recipient's e-mail software will display the file in the format that it supports. It will not display both files.

The attachment you select as the alternate body will display to the recipient as the e-mail message, not as an attachment.

The sequence of Alternate Body attachments determines the file format that the recipient's e-mail software will display. Generally, it will display the first file format that it supports. For example, if you specify HTML and text format, a software program that supports both formats will display HTML first.

~~~

Using this method you should be able to get a call started with Captaris Support, let them know you are using FaxUil to send the email and not the API.