(Classic ASP) Forward by Attaching the Existing Email to a New Email

Demonstrates how to forward an email by attaching the email to a new email. This example uses the AttachEmail method, which is new in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

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

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' 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.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Imap")
set imap = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

' Connect to an IMAP server.
imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.com")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

numEmails = imap.NumMessages

' Fetch the email at the last sequence number.
' (We are assuming the Inbox has at least 1 email)
' email is a Chilkat.Email
Set email = imap.FetchSingle(numEmails,0)
If (imap.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
success = imap.Disconnect()

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Subject) & "</pre>"

' Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Email")
set eForward = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

success = eForward.AddTo("Chilkat Support","support@chilkatsoft.com")

eForward.FromAddress = "matt@someMailServer.com"
eForward.FromName = "Matt"
eForward.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.
success = eForward.AttachEmail(email)

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

' We could send (forward) the email..
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.MailMan")
set mailman = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.MailMan")

mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.someMailServer.com"
mailman.SmtpUsername = "myLogin"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"
mailman.SmtpPort = 587
mailman.StartTLS = 1

success = mailman.SendEmail(eForward)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mailman.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.") & "</pre>"
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Mail Sent!") & "</pre>"


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