send emails

steve64

What's the best way to send emails (using MS Outlook) from a LuaRT app?

Samir

You can use :

First method

➡️ This will open a new blank email ready to be written by the user :

sysutils.shellexec("open", "mailto:email@server.com")

Second method

➡️ This method uses COM automation to send an email silently with the current mail account in Outlook :

local outlook = sys.COM("Outlook.Application")
local mail = outlook:CreateItem(0) -- olMailItem constant (zero)

mail.To = "email@server.com"
mail.Subject = "Silent Email"
mail.Body = "This is a test email sent silently using Outlook COM."

mail:Send()

steve64

Thanks.
The first solution does not work on my PC (jus open a browser).
The second one looks fine. I'm able to send messages also to multiple destinations..,

Samir

Great !

steve64

there is now an issue: I can not send a body string concatenating sysutils.user, it looks like the string terminator returned by sysutils.user is missing

Samir

Oh strange...I will check this

Samir

You are right, there is a bug with sysutils.user that returns a string with a trailing \0 character that prevent any string concatenation. It's now fixed and will be available in next LuaRT release.

For now you can use this fix :

local username = sysutils.user:sub(1,-2)