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SendRawEmail (HTML Email with PDF Attachment)

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Demonstrates how to use the SES SendRawEmail action to send an email with an attachment. Note: The total size of an SES email cannot exceed 10MB.

See SES SendRawEmail for more information.

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Classic ASP
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

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

'  Let's first prepare the email to be sent..
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Charset = "utf-8"
email.Subject = "Test email with PDF attachment."
email.SetHtmlBody "<html><body><p>This is a test <b>HTML email with a PDF attachment</b></p></body></html>"

'  The AddFileAttachment method returns the content-type selected based on the 
'  file extension.   This example has no need of using the return value..
contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf")
If (email.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Add the From header, and some recipients.
'  The From address should be an email address verified for use
'  as a sender for your Amazon SES account.
'  The From address will also be the Source parameter for the SES SendRawEmail request.
email.From = "Chilkat Software <admin@chilkatdownload.com>"

'  Add recipients...
'  Note: We DO NOT add BCC recipients to the email.  A BCC address should not be
'  present in the MIME header of the email (otherwise it would not be "blind" because
'  other recipients would be able to see it).
'  These same addresses will be added as parameters to the SendRawEmail request.
'  (BCC addresses are added as parameters at that time.)
success = email.AddTo("Mr. Simulator","success@simulator.amazonses.com")
success = email.AddCC("Chilkat Support","support@chilkatsoft.com")
success = email.AddCC("Some Yahoo","somebody@yahoo.com")

'  Get the MIME of the email to be sent.
mimeStr = email.GetMime()

'  We'll need the MIME base64 encoded for the SES REST request..
set crypt = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Crypt2")
mimeBase64 = crypt.EncodeString(mimeStr,"utf-8","base64")

'  OK.. our MIME email is prepared.  Now use Chilkat REST to send it..

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

'  Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
'  such as https://email.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("email.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

'  Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
set authAws = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthAws")
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
'  the region should match our URL above..
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"
authAws.ServiceName = "ses"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

success = rest.AddQueryParam("Action","SendRawEmail")

success = rest.AddQueryParam("RawMessage.Data",mimeBase64)

'  Add up to 100 TO, CC, and BCC recipients.
'  If your SES account is still in the sandbox, you also must verify every recipient email address except for the recipients 
'  provided by the Amazon SES mailbox simulator. (See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbox-simulator.html)
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Destination.ToAddresses.member.1","success@simulator.amazonses.com")
'  Please do not test by sending email to Chilkat (Thank You!)
'  Please do not test by sending email to Chilkat (Thank You!)
'  Please do not test by sending email to Chilkat (Thank You!)
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Destination.CcAddresses.member.1","support@chilkatsoft.com")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Destination.CcAddresses.member.2","somebody@yahoo.com")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Destination.BccAddresses.member.1","somebody@gmail.com")

success = rest.AddQueryParam("Source","admin@chilkatdownload.com")

'  Because there may be a large amount of data in the query params, use a POST
'  where the params are sent in the body of the HTTP Request.
responseXml = rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response body: " & responseXml) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Examine the successful XML response.
set xml = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xml.LoadXml(responseXml)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( xml.GetXml()) & "</pre>"

'  To get the MessageId
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "MessageId: " & xml.ChilkatPath("SendEmailResult|MessageId|*")) & "</pre>"

'  A sample successful response:
'  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
'  <SendEmailResponse xmlns="http://ses.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-12-01/">
'      <SendEmailResult>
'          <MessageId>010101579081d2c1-043c693f-5a23-4c64-a8c1-66187d3725a0-000000</MessageId>
'      </SendEmailResult>
'      <ResponseMetadata>
'          <RequestId>e2b5b480-8a4e-11e6-85cd-21b1f1f6d432</RequestId>
'      </ResponseMetadata>
'  </SendEmailResponse>

%>
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