Problems with getting file text stream

[Stefan Dase]

Hello everybody!

I'm not very experienced in ASP but have to extend a colleague's site.

One page enables users to add new action-items to our database. After
inserting the record it have to send an email to the responsible worker
with title and description.

I tried to read the message body from a template text file (*.htm) and
substitute placeholders with the new data. But I only get an empty
message body. Here is the relevant part of ASP code:

'get email message from template
sTmplt = Server.MapPath("../templates/actionitem_email.htm")
Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFSO.FileExists(sTmplt) Then
sMgs = objFSO.OpenTextFile(sTmplt).ReadAll
Else
sMsg = "File not found: " & sTmplt
End If

vEmail = rstRecipient.Fields(0).Value
If Not IsNull(vEmail) Then
With objMail
.From = "(e-mail address removed)"
.Subject = "Neue Aufgabe in BeDaBaL für Projekt " & sProjectName
.To = vEmail
.TextBody = sMsg
.Send
End With
End If

If i fill sMsg manually with some characters they appear in the email.
But if I try to read out the template there is no text, even the Else
branch isn't used.

Do anybody has any idea?

Many thanks,
Stefan

 

[Stefan Dase]

Ups,

sometimes it is very helpfull to have a little break. It was just the
wrong notation:

If objFSO.FileExists(sTmplt) Then
sMgs = objFSO.OpenTextFile(sTmplt).ReadAll ^
Else
sMsg = "File not found: " & sTmplt
End If

Thank you,
Stefan