Android™

Forward by Attaching the Existing Email to a New Email

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Demonstrates how to forward an email by attaching the email to a new email.

This example reads an email from an IMAP server, attaches the email to a new email, and sends the new email.

Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // Read the 1st (most recent) email in an Inbox.
    CkImap imap = new CkImap();

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    imap.put_Ssl(true);
    imap.put_Port(993);
    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Login
    success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    int numEmails = imap.get_NumMessages();

    // Fetch the email at the last sequence number.
    // (We are assuming the Inbox has at least 1 email)

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    success = imap.FetchEmail(false,numEmails,false,email);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    imap.Disconnect();

    Log.i(TAG, email.subject());

    // Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
    CkEmail eForward = new CkEmail();

    eForward.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com");

    eForward.put_FromAddress("matt@somewhere.com");
    eForward.put_FromName("Matt");
    eForward.put_Subject("This is an email with another email attached.");

    eForward.SetHtmlBody("<p>Hello, this is an email I'm forwarding to you.  See the attached email.</p>");

    // Attach the email.
    eForward.AttachEmail(email);

    // We could save the .eml, then double-click on it to view in our mail program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird..
    eForward.SaveEml("qa_output/forward.eml");

    // We could send (forward) the email..
    CkMailMan mailman = new CkMailMan();

    mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.example.com");
    mailman.put_SmtpUsername("myLogin");
    mailman.put_SmtpPassword("myPassword");
    mailman.put_SmtpPort(587);
    mailman.put_StartTLS(true);

    success = mailman.SendEmail(eForward);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, mailman.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection();
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.");
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Mail Sent!");

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}