Visual FoxPro

Send Email With Attachments

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Demonstrates how to send an email with attachments. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMailman
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL lcContentType

lnSuccess = 0

* 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.
loMailman = CreateObject('Chilkat.MailMan')

* Set the SMTP server.
loMailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.my-tls-mail-server.com"

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

* Connect to SMTP port 465 using TLS.
loMailman.SmtpSsl = 1
loMailman.SmtpPort = 465

* Create a new email object
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

loEmail.Subject = "This is a test"
loEmail.Body = "This is a test"
loEmail.From = "Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>"
lnSuccess = loEmail.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.
lcContentType = loEmail.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
IF (loEmail.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lcContentType = loEmail.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf")
IF (loEmail.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* 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.  
lnSuccess = loMailman.SendEmail(loEmail)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

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

? "Mail with attachments sent!"

RELEASE loMailman
RELEASE loEmail