To Highlight the Header in server job

thirupri · Post by **thirupri** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:15 am

Gurus,
I need tips. When I send mail in the body of the message I want to Highlight the word as heading and the message as normal text format. I want to know is it possible. Here is my script:

pmSendTo = "TV@aaa.com";
pmSubject = "ETL - IGNORE - Test Mail";
XFrom = "From:TV@aa.com";
XTo = "To:" :pmSendTo;
XSubject = "Subject:" :pmSubject;
XServer = "Server:cennotes01";

XBody = "Body: \n ":Char(2):"Heading":" \n ";
XBody = XBody : "the details ":" \n ";

Our mail server is Lotus Notes.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:04 am

By 'highlight' do you mean you want it to be bold? I don't believe that you have any control over that, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. You may be able to embed the control characters that tell Notes to do that.

Of course, you'd need to know what to embed... and if that would even work... is that what you've been attempting with the Char(2)?

Hopefully, someone with some specific experience with this will respond.

thirupri · Post by **thirupri** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:27 am

Highlight me "BOLD". I tried with char(2) but, it gives me some junk character. Thanks for your comments "chulett". I am waiting for GURUS who had done this. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:01 pm

Send your mail as HTML or XML and you can go completely crazy with tags. On the down side, YOU will have to put the tags in.

thirupri · Post by **thirupri** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:41 am

Thanks Ray. I tried by sending .html file as follows:
"D:\Ascential\DataStage\Engine\bin\dssmtpmail.exe -server 10.10.1.1 -from TValavan@AA.com.sa -subject "ETL - Test Mail" -message d:\Ascential\DataStage\Projects\DAILY_DEV\fortest1.htm TValavan@AA.com.sa "

But before this bat file executes it convert the message to txt format and sending it to the Server. Is any other way to avoid the convertions
to text file.

Thanks with Regards,

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:44 pm

DSSendMail is merely an interlude to sendmail(), an extremely basic mail client. I believe, to make use of extended functionality, you will need to use a more capable mail client.
You are trying to get DataStage functions (and the UNIX function) to perform a task that was not within their design specifications.