B4X

Send Email With Attachments

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Demonstrates how to send an email with attachments. B4X

Dim success As Boolean = False

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

'  The mailman object is used for sending (SMTP) and receiving (POP3) email.
Dim mailman As ChilkatMailMan
mailman.Initialize("mailman")

'  Set the SMTP server.
mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.my-tls-mail-server.com"

'  Set the SMTP login/password (if required)
mailman.SmtpUsername = "MY_SMTP_USERNAME"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "MY_SMTP_PASSWORD"

'  Connect to SMTP port 465 using TLS.
mailman.SmtpSsl = True
mailman.SmtpPort = 465

'  Create a new email object
Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize

email.Subject = "This is a test"
email.Body = "This is a test"
email.From = "Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>"
success = email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin", "admin@chilkatsoft.com")
'  To add more recipients, call AddTo, AddCC, or AddBcc once per recipient.

'  Add some attachments.
'  The AddFileAttachment method returns the value of the content-type it chose for the attachment.
Dim contentType As String = email.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
If email.LastMethodSuccess <> True Then
    Log(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf")
If email.LastMethodSuccess <> True Then
    Log(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Call SendEmail to connect to the SMTP server and send.
'  The connection (i.e. session) to the SMTP server remains
'  open so that subsequent SendEmail calls may use the
'  same connection.  
success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
If success <> True Then
    Log(mailman.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection
If success <> True Then
    Log("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.")
End If


Log("Mail with attachments sent!")