Dart
Send HTML Email with Attachments

Demonstrates how to send an HTML email with file attachments.
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Dart
import 'package:chilkat/chilkat.dart';

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

  final mailman = CkMailMan();

  mailman.smtpHost = 'smtp.my-starttls-mail-server.com';

  mailman.smtpUsername = 'MY-SMTP-USERNAME';
  mailman.smtpPassword = 'MY-SMTP-PASSWORD';

  mailman.startTLS = true;
  mailman.smtpPort = 587;

  // Create a new email object
  final email = CkEmail();
  email.subject = 'Test SMTP API to Send HTML Email with Attachments';
  email.from = 'Joe Programmer <joe@my-starttls-mail-server.com>';
  email.addTo('Chilkat Support', 'support@chilkatsoft.com');

  // Add a plain-text alternative body, which will likely never be seen.
  // (It is shown if the receiving email client is incapable of displaying HTML email.)
  email.addPlainTextAlternativeBody('This is a plain-text alternative body...');

  // Our HTML will include an image, so add the related image here.
  final String contentIdStarfish;
  try {
    contentIdStarfish = email.addRelatedFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg');
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // The src attribute for the image tag is set to the contentIdStarfish:
  final sbHtml = CkStringBuilder();
  sbHtml.append('<html><body><p>This is an HTML email with an embedded image.</p>');
  sbHtml.append('<p><img src="cid:CONTENT_ID_STARFISH" /></p></body></html>');
  final numReplacements = sbHtml.replace('CONTENT_ID_STARFISH', contentIdStarfish);

  email.addHtmlAlternativeBody(sbHtml.getAsString());

  // Finally, add some attachments to the email.
  // Add a file attachment.
  try {
    email.addFileAttachment2('qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf', 'application/pdf');
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Add an attachment where the content is contained in a string.
  final content = 'This is the content of the 2nd attached file.';
  email.addStringAttachment('someText.txt', content);

  // Send the HTML email.
  try {
    mailman.sendEmail(email);
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  try {
    mailman.closeSmtpConnection();
  } on ChilkatException {
    print('Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.');
  }

  print('HTML email with attachments sent!');
}