Problem with Send Email Action

FinalBuilder Discussion
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We’ve just upgraded to FB5 and are now having problems with the Send Email action and attachments.

This is configured exactly the same way it was in FB4. The email received shows that it has an attachment but when the email is opened the contents of the attachment are in the body of the email.

Also what is the format of the text file used to specify recipients.

Thanks in anticipation.

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Hi James,

The format of the Text file is one email address per line, FinalBuilder 5 builds after 5.0.0.59 also allow you to specify a name by placing a comma between the email address and the name.

Unfortunatly I wasn’t able to reproduce the attachment problem you are seeing, what type of file is it that is being attached?

Regards,
Paul.

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We have the same (minor) problem. The attachment is an HTML file (actually a FinalBuilder report).

Best regards,

Ulrik Sandström

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So you mean the html appears (rendered?) in the body of the email?

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Yes. I should probably point out that we are using Lotus Notes as our mail system. I would bet it’s a Lotus Notes-related problem rather than a FinalBuilder problem. That is usually the case when Lotus Notes is involved…

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Yes, that sounds likely. Notes is probably assuming that you want to see the html attachment inline with the rest of the email. Maybe there’s an option in Notes to change this behaviour?

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I doubt it, Notes may be worst piece of software ever written when it comes to the GUI part.
Thanks anyway.

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Switching the Mode property in the Send Email action from Normal to Individual has fixed the problem for me. Unfortunately we are also using Notes. This problem did not occur with the Send Email action in FB4 and the Mode property is new in FB5.

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This problem did not occur with the Send Email action in FB4
Yes, we did make a change in FB5 to _more correctly_ mark an html attachment as html/text rather than binary.