Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2
Basics steps to follow .................................................................................................................................... 2
Example ..................................................................................................................................................... 2
Steps to follow .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Data definition ...................................................................................................................................... 3
Have data/text ready for email body .................................................................................................... 3
Have an internal table ready with attachment data............................................................................. 4
Convert internal table with attachment data into a binary stream ..................................................... 4
Set the email request subject ............................................................................................................... 5
Create the email document .................................................................................................................. 5
Set the email request attributes ........................................................................................................... 5
Attach the email document to the email request ................................................................................ 6
Create and set the email sender ........................................................................................................... 6
Add the attachment to the email document ........................................................................................ 6
Create and set the email recipients ...................................................................................................... 6
Send the email request and commit work ............................................................................................ 7
Check the created email in the transaction SOST ................................................................................. 7

Introduction
There are business requirements where you need to generate emails with or without attachments based
on a custom logic in an ABAP program.

Basics steps to follow

Data definition

Have text ready for email body

Have internal table ready with data for the attachment

Convert table data into a binary stream

Set them email request subject

Create the email document

Attach the email document to the email request

Create the email sender and set the sender

Add the attachment to email document

Create recipients and set recipients

Send email request and commit

Example
Send an email using sample content and an attachment. Check the email in SOST to verify.

Steps to follow
Data definition
Define data set to be used in the program. See program comment for details.

Have data/text ready for email body

In this example, an internal table will be populated with sample data for the email body.

Have an internal table ready with attachment data

Convert internal table with attachment data into a binary stream

Collect internal table data to a variable type String.
Separate values by horizontal tab and add a new line character at the end of each line.

Set the email request subject

Two variable will be used in two different methods because of different types.

Create the email document

Determine the length of the email body (In this example LT_CONTENTS internal table).
Document type is RAW and you may use a different type as per your requirement.
Parse email body table, determined length of the table, document subject, language and importance of
the message.

Set the email request attributes

Attach the email document to the email request

Create and set the email sender

In this example sender is the user who runs this program.

Add the attachment to the email document

Parse the attachment document extension, attachment name and the converted binary stream.

Create and set the email recipients

Send the email request and commit work

Check the created email in the transaction SOST

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