SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

Chapter 11. Sending E-mail Using BCS Classes

In this chapter, we will see recipes of e-mail programming using the Business communication services (BCS). We will look at:

• Creating a simple e-mail message
• Sending e-mail to Internet e-mail addresses
• Adding attachments to your message
• Creating HTML e-mail
• Running a program and sending its output as an e-mail

Introduction

This chapter explores useful recipes related to the programming of e-mail sending. We will start with a brief overview of BCS and the various classes available. Then we will see a simple recipe that will generate an e-mail to an SAP user in his or her inbox. Then, we will show how the same program may be changed in order to send the e-mail to Internet e-mail addresses.

We will then add attachments ...