LotusScript cannot get file attachment from email - lotus-notes

Question

I had never run into this problem, but I cannot get a handle on a file attachment on an email. I have code that can either search the document for Embedded Objects or search a field for Embedded Objects -- neither of them are returning the file. I can see the file on the email and I can see the $FILE field which contains the file attachment.
Here is the code:
Function FileDetachFiles(doc As NotesDocument, fieldName As String, getFromField As Integer) As Variant
On Error Goto ProcessError
Dim s As NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim rtItem As NotesRichTextItem
Dim fileToExtract As String
Dim fileName As String
Dim fileArray() As String
Dim message As String
Dim embedObjects As Variant
Dim attachFile As Integer
Dim x As Integer
Set s = New NotesSession
Set db = s.CurrentDatabase
Const fileImport = "C:\"
attachFile = False
'Let's see if there are attached files...
If getFromField = True Then
'Locate field and get files...
If doc.HasEmbedded Then
If doc.HasItem(fieldName) Then
'Set the first field...
Set rtItem = doc.GetFirstItem(fieldName)
embedObjects = rtItem.EmbeddedObjects
If Isarray(embedObjects) Then
Forall Files In rtItem.EmbeddedObjects
If Files.Type = EMBED_ATTACHMENT Then
fileName = Files.Source
fileToExtract = fileImport & fileName
Redim Preserve fileArray(x)
fileArray(x) = fileToExtract
x = x + 1
Call Files.ExtractFile(fileToExtract)
attachFile = True
End If
End Forall
End If
End If
End If
Else
x = 0
'Go through doc looking for all embedded objects...
If doc.HasEmbedded Then
Forall o In doc.EmbeddedObjects
If o.Type = EMBED_ATTACHMENT Then
fileName = o.Name
fileToExtract = fileImport & fileName
Call o.ExtractFile(fileToExtract)
Redim Preserve fileArray(x)
fileArray(x) = fileToExtract
x = x + 1
attachFile = True
End If
End Forall
End If
End If
If attachFile = True Then
FileDetachFiles = fileArray
End If
Exit Function
ProcessError:
message = "Error (" & Cstr(Err) & "): " & Error$ & " on line " & Cstr(Erl) & " in GlobalUtilities: " & Lsi_info(2) & "."
Messagebox message, 16, "Error In Processing..."
Exit Function
End Function
I tried both routines above -- passing the $FILE and Body field names, as well as searching the document. It does not find any file attachments.
I even tried this:
Extracting attachments as MIME using LotusScript
Which did not find any MIME on the document.
I have never run into this problems -- any ideas would be great.
Thanks!

Answer 1

I had that before, but unfortunately do not remember, where it comes from, it might have to do something with V2- Style Attachments coming from Domino Websites...
Try Evaluate( #AttachmentNames ) to get a Variant containing the names of all attachments. Then loop through this with a Forall- loop and try the NotesDocument.getAttachment( strLoopValue ) - Function to get a handle to the attachment.
For further info read here and follow the links on that page, especially this one
Code would be something like this:
Dim doc as NotesDocument
Dim varAttachmentNamens as Variant
Dim object as NotesEmbeddedObject
REM "Get the document here"
varAttachmentNames = Evaluate( "#AttachmentNames" , doc )
Forall strAttachmentName in varAttachmentNames
Set object = doc.GetAttachment( strAttachmentName )
REM "Do whatever you want..."
End Forall