How to capture "send mail" in plugin for IBM Lotus notes

Question

Here is what I am trying to do: Add a special button to attach files to Notes "New message" window. If files were attached using this button, when email sent, they should be uploaded to the server and link to them added to the email.

My question - is it possible (and how) to capture "send mail" event in the plugin for Lotus Notus?

Answer 1

I sort of figured it out. There is a very nice extension point provided in 8.5 - "com.ibm.notes.mailsend.MailSendAttachmentsDialog", that is specifically exists for custom handling of attachments. You can see it in plugin.xml, in IBM\Lotus\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.notes.mailsend_8.5.*.jar.

The only problem is - it handles just attachments and does not have access to anything else. So if somebody figured how to get subject line and the message text from there, please reply.

Update: got it.

NotesUIElement elem = (new NotesUIWorkspace()).getCurrentElement();
if (elem instanceof NotesUIDocument) {
NotesUIDocument doc = ((NotesUIDocument) elem);
String to = doc.getField("EnterSendTo").getText();
String cc = doc.getField("EnterCopyTo").getText();
String bcc = doc.getField("EnterBlindCopyTo").getText();
String subject = doc.getField("Subject").getText();
String body = doc.getField("Body").getText();
    ....
 }