(MFC) Add File Attachments to an Email

Demonstrates how to add one or more file attachments to an email.

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See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    CkEmail email;

    email.put_Subject("This is a test");
    email.put_Body("This is a test");
    email.put_From("support@chilkatsoft.com");
    bool success = email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com");

    // To add file attachments to an email, call AddFileAttachment
    // once for each file to be attached.  The method returns
    // the content-type of the attachment if successful, otherwise
    // returns cknull
    const char *contentType = 0;

    contentType = email.addFileAttachment("something.pdf");
    if (email.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    contentType = email.addFileAttachment("something.xml");
    if (email.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    contentType = email.addFileAttachment("something.zip");
    if (email.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    success = email.SaveEml("email.eml");
    if (success == false) {
        strOut.append(email.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    strOut.append("Saved EML!");
    strOut.append("\r\n");


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }