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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.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

# 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-Object Chilkat.Imap

# Connect to an IMAP server.
$imap.Ssl = $true
$imap.Port = 993
$success = $imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Login
$success = $imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$numEmails = $imap.NumMessages

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

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$success = $imap.FetchEmail($false,$numEmails,$false,$email)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$imap.Disconnect()

$($email.Subject)

# Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
$eForward = New-Object 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-Object Chilkat.MailMan

$mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.example.com"
$mailman.SmtpUsername = "myLogin"
$mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"
$mailman.SmtpPort = 587
$mailman.StartTLS = $true

$success = $mailman.SendEmail($eForward)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($mailman.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$success = $mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.")
}

$("Mail Sent!")