Trouble processing parameters when creating a new email in IBM Notes from powershell?

Question

I have a parameter that I pass to IBM notes to generate a new email that is passed to notes.exe as follows:

 mailto:bob@yahoo.com?subject=For Employee Someguy Somsirname?body= Hi, Someguy%0AI am emailing you in regard to Someguy.  Unable his\her Stuff. Please contact his\her.%0A%0A           %0AThank you,%0A            %0A

I'd like to be able to call this from Powershell, but when it calls notes.exe Notes says There was an error processing command line arguments

If I just copy and paste the parameter above and put it in double quotes it works just fine from powershell, but if I pass it as a variable it results in the aforementioned error.

Is there any thing here that when stored as a string would cause an issue passing it as a parameter? Characters that might need searched/replaced/escaped?

How are you invoking the executable? – Bill_Stewart Aug 01 '18 at 14:17 — Bill_Stewart, Aug 01 '18 at 14:17
`& $executableName $optionsParameters` – leeand00 Aug 01 '18 at 14:41 — leeand00, Aug 01 '18 at 14:41

leeand00 · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-01T14:36:24.437

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Needed to trim the parameter string.

In the variable that contained the parameters, I needed to call it's .Trim() function to clip off the space at the start and end of the string. After I did that it worked.

It takes this:

" mailto:bob@yahoo.com?subject=For Employee Someguy Somsirname?body= Hi, Someguy%0AI am emailing you in regard to Someguy.  Unable his\her Stuff. Please contact his\her.%0A%0A           %0AThank you,%0A            %0A"

and makes it this:

"mailto:bob@yahoo.com?subject=For Employee Someguy Somsirname?body= Hi, Someguy%0AI am emailing you in regard to Someguy.  Unable his\her Stuff. Please contact his\her.%0A%0A           %0AThank you,%0A            %0A"

edited Aug 01 '18 at 14:36

answered Aug 01 '18 at 02:08

leeand00

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In order for your answer to be useful to future readers, can you please explain the solution in more detail? – mklement0 Aug 01 '18 at 03:05
Sorry I didn't have time to make the answer more articulate last night. – leeand00 Aug 01 '18 at 14:39
It would be much more helpful to others if you showed the actual powershell script in the question, and then the corrected script in the answer. – Richard Schwartz Aug 02 '18 at 16:55

Trouble processing parameters when creating a new email in IBM Notes from powershell?

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