Name of the attachment gets added automatically to the body of the email

[DPM]

Hi,



I have noticed that the name of the attachment gets added into the body of
the email, eventhough not specified in the body of the email when composing
and sending an email using MSOutlook programmatically.



The email received in InBox,

- Has the actual attachment on top of the email as expected.

- Body gets the name of the attachment, eventhough the detail added to the
mail was only "This is a test email." as follows,

"T <<07.04.02 - PlanningPermit.pdf>> his is a test email."

"07.04.02 - PlanningPermit.pdf" is the name of the attachment

- This happens with MS OutLook 2003 SP3

- This program works fine with MSO 2003 SP2 on another computer.



Please could someone advice on how to get rid of the attachment name getting
added to the body of the email enclosed with << and >>.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Please show the code you're using to create the message.

 

[DPM]

Hi Sue,

loOutLookSession = CREATEOBJECT('OutLook.Application')
loOutBox = loOutLookSession.GetNameSpace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(4)
loMailItem = loOutBox.Items.Add(0)

loMailItem.Subject = "This is the Subject"
loMailItem.BodyFormat = 1
loMailItem.Body = "This is the Detail"
loMailItem.TO = <To recipient>

lcAttachment = <Name of the attachment>
lnAttachmentPosition = loMailItem.Attachments.Count + 1
loMailItem.Attachments.Add(lcAttachment, 1, lnAttachmentPosition, <Display
name of the attachment>)

loMailItem.Send()

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Try changing your Attachments.Add statement to:

loMailItem.Attachments.Add(lcAttachment, 1)

Neither the position nor the display name parameters are relevant to a plain
text message with the file attached by value.

You might also try setting Body after you attach the file.

 

[DPM]

Hi Sue,

Thanks, I'll try to see if it works.

Try changing your Attachments.Add statement to:

loMailItem.Attachments.Add(lcAttachment, 1)

Neither the position nor the display name parameters are relevant to a
plain
text message with the file attached by value.

You might also try setting Body after you attach the file.

 

[DPM]

Hi Sue,

Thanks it works.
For this we did not set the index possition of the attachments when the mail
is sent in plain text.