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Send Email with Multiple Reply-To Addresses

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Send email with multiple repy-to addresses.

Note: Some mail servers will remove the extra email addresses from the Reply-To header. Even if you provide multiple reply-to addresses, the email may arrive with only the 1st.

PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Mailman
oleobject loo_Email
oleobject loo_SbMime
string ls_ReplyToAddrs

li_Success = 0

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

loo_Mailman = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Mailman.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.MailMan")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Mailman
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

loo_Mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.my_mail_server.com"
loo_Mailman.SmtpUsername = "myUsername"
loo_Mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"
loo_Mailman.SmtpPort = 465
loo_Mailman.SmtpSsl = 1

// Create a new email object
loo_Email = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Email.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")

loo_Email.Subject = "This is a test"
loo_Email.Body = "This is a test"
loo_Email.From = "Joe <joe@example.com>"
li_Success = loo_Email.AddTo("Mary","mary@example2.com")

// Specify a single reply-to address, which will get replace with a list of addresses..
loo_Email.ReplyTo = "placeholder@example.com"

// Get the email as MIME.
loo_SbMime = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbMime.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

loo_Mailman.RenderToMimeSb(loo_Email,loo_SbMime)

// Update the Reply-To MIME header with a list of email addresses.
ls_ReplyToAddrs = "joe@example.com, mike@example.com"
loo_SbMime.ReplaceAllBetween("Reply-To: ","~r~n",ls_ReplyToAddrs,0)

// Examine the MIME to be sent:
Write-Debug loo_SbMime.GetAsString()

// Here's the MIME:

// MIME-Version: 1.0
// Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:18:12 -0500
// Message-ID: <D892B0E563A7A13B1F499530DE21529714EA479A@SLICE>
// Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
// Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
// X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
// Subject: This is a test
// From: Joe <joe@example.com>
// To: Mary <mary@example2.com>
// Reply-To: joe@example.com, mike@example.com
// 
// This is a test

// ---------
// Send the MIME...
li_Success = loo_Mailman.SendMime("joe@example.com","mary@example2.com",loo_SbMime.GetAsString())
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Mailman.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Mailman
    destroy loo_Email
    destroy loo_SbMime
    return
end if

li_Success = loo_Mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly."
end if

Write-Debug "Mail Sent!"


destroy loo_Mailman
destroy loo_Email
destroy loo_SbMime