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Outlook Send HTML Email with Embedded Images
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This example sends an HTML email with embedded images. Other examples exist for:- Sending plain-text email.
- Sending email with attachments.
- Sending HTML email with embedded images and attachments.
This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com
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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @hr int
DECLARE @iTmp0 int
DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
DECLARE @success int
SELECT @success = 0
-- Important: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.68 or greater.
-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
DECLARE @http int
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
IF @hr <> 0
BEGIN
PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
RETURN
END
-- Use your previously obtained access token here:
-- See the following examples for getting an access token:
-- Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
-- Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).
-- Refresh Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
-- Refresh Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).
EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'AuthToken', 'MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN'
-- To send mail, we'll POST to the following endpoint:
--
-- POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/sendMail
--
-- (The special keyword "me" may be used in place of a principal name.)
--
-- This example will send HTML email containing the following HTML body.
-- After the
-- <html>
-- <head>
-- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
-- <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
-- </head>
-- <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
-- <font face="Calibri">This is a test <b>HTML email with embedded images</b>.<br>
-- <br>
-- <img alt="" src="cid:starfish"><br>
-- <img alt="" src="cid:hedgehogs"><br>
-- </font>
-- </body>
-- </html>
-- Build the HTML body...
DECLARE @bCrlf int
SELECT @bCrlf = 1
DECLARE @sbHtmlBody int
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringBuilder', @sbHtmlBody OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<html>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<head>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8">', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '</head>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<font face="Calibri">This is a test <b>HTML email with embedded images</b>.<br>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<br>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<img alt="" src="cid:starfish"><br>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '<img alt="" src="cid:hedgehogs"><br>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '</font>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '</body>', @bCrlf
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'AppendLine', @success OUT, '</html>', @bCrlf
-- Load the image files.
DECLARE @jpgStarfish int
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.BinData', @jpgStarfish OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @jpgStarfish, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg'
DECLARE @jpgHedgeHogs int
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.BinData', @jpgHedgeHogs OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @jpgHedgeHogs, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/jpg/hedgehogs.jpg'
-- The body of the POST request contains JSON that specifies the email subject, body,
-- recipients, etc. This example will build the following JSON HTML email:
--
-- {
-- "message": {
-- "subject": "Sample HTML Email with Embedded Images",
-- "body": {
-- "contentType": "html",
-- "content": "The HTML body goes here..."
-- },
-- "toRecipients": [
-- {
-- "emailAddress": {
-- "name": "Chilkat Software",
-- "address": "admin@chilkat.io"
-- }
-- },
-- {
-- "emailAddress": {
-- "address": "chilkat.support@gmail.com"
-- }
-- }
-- ],
-- "ccRecipients": [
-- {
-- "emailAddress": {
-- "name": "Chilkat Blog",
-- "address": "admin@cknotes.com"
-- }
-- }
-- ],
-- "attachments": [
-- {
-- "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
-- "name": "starfish.jpg",
-- "contentType": "image/jpeg",
-- "size": 6497,
-- "isInline": true,
-- "contentId": "starfish",
-- "contentLocation": null,
-- "contentBytes": "base64_data_here"
-- },
-- {
-- "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
-- "name": "hedgehogs.jpg",
-- "contentType": "image/jpeg",
-- "size": 48845,
-- "isInline": true,
-- "contentId": "hedgehogs",
-- "contentLocation": null,
-- "contentBytes": "base64_data_here"
-- }
-- ]
-- },
-- "saveToSentItems": true
-- }
--
-- Build the above JSON.
DECLARE @json int
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @json OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.subject', 'Sample HTML Email with Embedded Images'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.body.contentType', 'html'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbHtmlBody, 'GetAsString', @sTmp0 OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.body.content', @sTmp0
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.toRecipients[0].emailAddress.name', 'Chilkat Software'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.toRecipients[0].emailAddress.address', 'admin@chilkat.io'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.toRecipients[1].emailAddress.address', 'chilkat.support@gmail.com'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.ccRecipients[0].emailAddress.name', 'Chilkat Blog'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.ccRecipients[0].emailAddress.address', 'admin@cknotes.com'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0]."@odata.type"', '#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].name', 'starfish.jpg'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].contentType', 'image/jpeg'
EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @jpgStarfish, 'NumBytes', @iTmp0 OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateInt', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].size', @iTmp0
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].isInline', 1
-- This contentId must match the "cid:" in the HTML
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].contentId', 'starfish'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateNull', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].contentLocation'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBd', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].contentBytes', 'base64', @jpgStarfish
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1]."@odata.type"', '#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].name', 'hedgehogs.jpg'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].contentType', 'image/jpeg'
EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @jpgHedgeHogs, 'NumBytes', @iTmp0 OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateInt', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].size', @iTmp0
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].isInline', 1
-- This contentId must match the "cid:" in the HTML
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].contentId', 'hedgehogs'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateNull', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].contentLocation'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBd', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].contentBytes', 'base64', @jpgHedgeHogs
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'saveToSentItems', 1
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- Important: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.68 or greater.
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- Send the HTTP POST (i.e. send the HTML email)
DECLARE @resp int
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpJson', @success OUT, 'POST', 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/sendMail', @json, 'application/json', @resp
IF @success = 0
BEGIN
EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
PRINT @sTmp0
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbHtmlBody
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jpgStarfish
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jpgHedgeHogs
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
RETURN
END
-- The send succeeded if the response status code = 202.
-- In the success case, there is no response body. (We just get the response code to know that it succeeded.)
EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
IF @iTmp0 <> 202
BEGIN
EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'Load', @success OUT, @sTmp0
EXEC sp_OASetProperty @json, 'EmitCompact', 0
EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'Emit', @sTmp0 OUT
PRINT @sTmp0
EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
PRINT 'Failed, response status code = ' + @iTmp0
END
ELSE
BEGIN
PRINT 'Outlook HTML Mail Sent.'
END
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbHtmlBody
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jpgStarfish
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jpgHedgeHogs
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json
EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
END
GO