Does anyone know how to send emails in Windows SharePoint Services?Or alter the ones that are sent to subscribers? Specifically, Iwant the function similar to the alerts you can set up, but I wantto send it to other people and add additional text to the body ofthe email.
I believe the system messages generated in the alerts are done so by a .dll file which cannot be altered.
There are SP (SQL Stored Procedures) in the form of compiled DLL (and other Dlls as well) that brings the Alert functionality. However look into\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\XML\directory for XML template files that these dlls use to format the message text.
Which XML files in particular are you referring to that relate to controlling custom alert messages? The only system xml files of relevance in the folder you indicated are for file icon associations and HTML transformation applications.
Notifitem.xml, Notiflisthdr.xm.,Notifsiteftr.xml, and Notifsitehdr.xml files. I was able to alterthese albeit with large restrictions as to which variable you canadd. However, you have to reboot before the new formats take effect.
You can send custom personalized emails to external recipients from contact list, or just adding them manually - using this solution www.enovapoint.com/.../(But only for SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010)