Mime Question for the experts

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Does anybody know how to append a MIME item to an existing MIME entity.

I have a document that has a Body (in MIME format) already. I would like to retreive that MimeEntity and append another MimeEntity

I use the Body=doc.GetMimeEntity to get the body field and then use a child=doc.CreateMimeEntity

I then set the child using a Steam write statement , close the stream. In looking at the document proerties for the document that get’s created I definitely see the child with the appropriate information… but when viewed, the document does NOT display the contents specified in the child mimeentity.

Is there some parameter or setting I am missing - on the Notes Client side.

When I send the same document via email to a non-notes email address and view it using the IE browser, I definitely can see the contents … so I know that they are present .

Something on the Notes Client side is preventing the child from rending

any pointers would be appreciated.

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Subject: Mime Question for the experts

Although I’m not an expert on MIME, I have some recent experience with getting inline graphics and multiple MIME entities to show alongside each other.

What I tended to find was that in order to get child entities to show correctly, you have to set the main root MIMEEntity’s existing Content-Type header to “multipart/related”.

Use getNthHeader and setHeaderVal to achieve this, and see if it fixes the problem.

If not, I’ve posted all the code I used here:

http://notesdev.blogspot.com/2004/07/sending-and-receiving-html-messages.html

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Subject: RE: Mime Question for the experts

Thanks… but I seem to have what you pointed out.Main root entity (copied from document properties)

“Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=”=related 005507B486256EEB="

This is a multipart message in MIME format."

Child entity"

–=related 005507B486256EEB=

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: text/html

Also I could NOT get to the blog you posted with the code…

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Subject: RE: Mime Question for the experts

Sorry, my mistake - my blog has been rebuilt since then.

Having re-read your post, here’s a couple of ideas. You may well have tried them already, but it might be worth investigating any or all of the following:

  1. Most obvious, but is the convertMIME property of notessession set to false when you run your code?

  2. Check the body entity you’re getting is the right one - perhaps getFirstItem(“Body”) and then item.getMIMEEntity might be a good way of ensuring you get the top level root MIMEEntity.

  3. Try checking through the headerobjects of the body NotesMIMEEntity object and see if anything that’s currently there is intefering with the display of your child entity - I think you can view these via the document properties rather than resorting to code.

Apologies for the blog - it’s now located here:

http://notesdev.blogspot.com/2004/07/sending-and-receiving-html-messages.html

My original code, and additional code from others is also posted here on the forum:

(http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/ShowMyTopicsAllFlatweb/192d71d45e44addf85256ecc0036eaaf?OpenDocument)

Hope some of this is a help.