PHP ActiveX

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.

PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 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.
$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

// Connect to an IMAP server.
$imap->Ssl = 1;
$imap->Port = 993;
$success = $imap->Connect('imap.example.com');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Login
$success = $imap->Login('myLogin','myPassword');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$numEmails = $imap->NumMessages;

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

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$success = $imap->FetchEmail(0,$numEmails,0,$email);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$imap->Disconnect();

print $email->Subject . "\n";

// Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
$eForward = new COM("Chilkat.Email");

$eForward->AddTo('Joe','joe@example.com');

$eForward->FromAddress = 'matt@somewhere.com';
$eForward->FromName = 'Matt';
$eForward->Subject = 'This is an email with another email attached.';

$eForward->SetHtmlBody('<p>Hello, this is an email I'm forwarding to you.  See the attached email.</p>');

// Attach the email.
$eForward->AttachEmail($email);

// We could save the .eml, then double-click on it to view in our mail program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird..
$eForward->SaveEml('qa_output/forward.eml');

// We could send (forward) the email..
$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan");

$mailman->SmtpHost = 'smtp.example.com';
$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'myLogin';
$mailman->SmtpPassword = 'myPassword';
$mailman->SmtpPort = 587;
$mailman->StartTLS = 1;

$success = $mailman->SendEmail($eForward);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $mailman->CloseSmtpConnection();
if ($success != 1) {
    print 'Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.' . "\n";
}

print 'Mail Sent!' . "\n";

?>