(C#) 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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// 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..
Chilkat.Email email = new 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..
string contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf");
if (email.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// 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.)
email.AddTo("Mr. Simulator","success@simulator.amazonses.com");
email.AddCC("Chilkat Support","support@chilkatsoft.com");
email.AddCC("Some Yahoo","somebody@yahoo.com");

// Get the MIME of the email to be sent.
string mimeStr = email.GetMime();

// We'll need the MIME base64 encoded for the SES REST request..
Chilkat.Crypt2 crypt = new Chilkat.Crypt2();
string mimeBase64 = crypt.EncodeString(mimeStr,"utf-8","base64");

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

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();

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

// Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Chilkat.AuthAws authAws = new 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";

rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

rest.AddQueryParam("Action","SendRawEmail");

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)
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!)
rest.AddQueryParam("Destination.CcAddresses.member.1","support@chilkatsoft.com");
rest.AddQueryParam("Destination.CcAddresses.member.2","somebody@yahoo.com");
rest.AddQueryParam("Destination.BccAddresses.member.1","somebody@gmail.com");

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.
string responseXml = rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if (rest.ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " + Convert.ToString(rest.ResponseStatusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    Debug.WriteLine("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine("response body: " + responseXml);
    return;
}

// Examine the successful XML response.
Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
xml.LoadXml(responseXml);
Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml());

// To get the MessageId
Debug.WriteLine("MessageId: " + xml.ChilkatPath("SendEmailResult|MessageId|*"));

// 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>