Visual FoxPro

Forward by Attaching the Existing Email to a New Email

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Demonstrates how to forward an email by attaching the email to a new email.

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

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loImap
LOCAL lnNumEmails
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL loEForward
LOCAL loMailman

lnSuccess = 0

* 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.
loImap = CreateObject('Chilkat.Imap')

* Connect to an IMAP server.
loImap.Ssl = 1
loImap.Port = 993
lnSuccess = loImap.Connect("imap.example.com")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Login
lnSuccess = loImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Select an IMAP mailbox
lnSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnNumEmails = loImap.NumMessages

* Fetch the email at the last sequence number.
* (We are assuming the Inbox has at least 1 email)

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
lnSuccess = loImap.FetchEmail(0,lnNumEmails,0,loEmail)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Disconnect from the IMAP server.
loImap.Disconnect()

? loEmail.Subject

* Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
loEForward = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

loEForward.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")

loEForward.FromAddress = "matt@somewhere.com"
loEForward.FromName = "Matt"
loEForward.Subject = "This is an email with another email attached."

loEForward.SetHtmlBody("<p>Hello, this is an email I'm forwarding to you.  See the attached email.</p>")

* Attach the email.
loEForward.AttachEmail(loEmail)

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

* We could send (forward) the email..
loMailman = CreateObject('Chilkat.MailMan')

loMailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.example.com"
loMailman.SmtpUsername = "myLogin"
loMailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"
loMailman.SmtpPort = 587
loMailman.StartTLS = 1

lnSuccess = loMailman.SendEmail(loEForward)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    RELEASE loEmail
    RELEASE loEForward
    RELEASE loMailman
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loMailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly."
ENDIF

? "Mail Sent!"

RELEASE loImap
RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loEForward
RELEASE loMailman