Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro
Outlook Send Email using MIME Format
See more Outlook Examples
This example sends an email using MIME format via the Microsoft Graph Outlook REST API.Chilkat Visual FoxPro Downloads
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL loJsonToken
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL lcContentIdStarfish
LOCAL loSbHtml
LOCAL lnNumReplacements
LOCAL lcContent
LOCAL loBdMime
LOCAL loSbBase64
LOCAL loResp
LOCAL loJson
lnSuccess = 0
* This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
* See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')
* Use your previously obtained access token here:
* See the following examples for getting an access token:
* Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
* Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).
* Refresh Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
* Refresh Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).
loJsonToken = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/microsoftGraph.json")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
? loJsonToken.LastErrorText
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loJsonToken
CANCEL
ENDIF
loHttp.AuthToken = loJsonToken.StringOf("access_token")
* To send email, we'll POST to the following endpoint:
*
* POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/sendMail
*
* (The special keyword "me" may be used in place of a principal name.)
*
* The body of the POST request will contain the MIME source of the email in base64 format.
* Create a new email object
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Test Outlook API to Send HTML Email with Attachments"
loEmail.From = "Mary <mary@somewhere.com>"
loEmail.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.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.)
loEmail.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is a plain-text alternative body...")
* Our HTML will include an image, so add the related image here.
lcContentIdStarfish = loEmail.AddRelatedFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
IF (loEmail.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
? loEmail.LastErrorText
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loEmail
CANCEL
ENDIF
* The src attribute for the image tag is set to the contentIdStarfish:
loSbHtml = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loSbHtml.Append("<html><body><p>This is an HTML email with an embedded image.</p>")
loSbHtml.Append('<p><img src="cid:CONTENT_ID_STARFISH" /></p></body></html>')
lnNumReplacements = loSbHtml.Replace("CONTENT_ID_STARFISH",lcContentIdStarfish)
loEmail.AddHtmlAlternativeBody(loSbHtml.GetAsString())
* Finally, add some attachments to the email.
* Add a file attachment.
lnSuccess = loEmail.AddFileAttachment2("qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf","application/pdf")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
? loEmail.LastErrorText
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loSbHtml
CANCEL
ENDIF
* Add an attachment where the content is contained in a string.
lcContent = "This is the content of the 2nd attached file."
loEmail.AddStringAttachment("someText.txt",lcContent)
* Get the email as multi-line base64..
loBdMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')
loEmail.GetMimeBd(loBdMime)
* Now get it as multi-line base64
loSbBase64 = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loBdMime.GetEncodedSb("base64_mime",loSbBase64)
* Send the HTTP POST (i.e. send the email)
loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpSb("POST","https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/sendMail",loSbBase64,"utf-8","text/plain",loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
? loHttp.LastErrorText
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loSbHtml
RELEASE loBdMime
RELEASE loSbBase64
RELEASE loResp
CANCEL
ENDIF
* The send succeeded if the response status code = 202.
* In the success case, there is no response body. (We just get the response code to know that it succeeded.)
IF (loResp.StatusCode <> 202) THEN
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.Load(loResp.BodyStr)
loJson.EmitCompact = 0
? loJson.Emit()
? "Failed, response status code = " + STR(loResp.StatusCode)
ELSE
? "Outlook Mail Sent."
ENDIF
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loSbHtml
RELEASE loBdMime
RELEASE loSbBase64
RELEASE loResp
RELEASE loJson