(PowerShell) Send GMail with Attachments

Demonstrates how to send an email containing attachments using the GMail REST API.

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Chilkat .NET Assemblies

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

# Use the Chilkat Email API to create or load an email.
$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email

# The From name/address don't need to be specified. 
# GMail will automatically use your Gmail address if the following 2 lines are omitted.
$email.FromName = "My Name"
$email.FromAddress = "my_account_name@gmail.com"

$email.AddTo("John Smith","somebody@somewhere.com")
# To add more recipients, make additional calls to AddTo or AddCC, one per recipient...

$email.Subject = "This is a test GMail email created using Chilkat."
$email.Charset = "utf-8"
$email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is a test")

# Create an HTML email body with an embedded image.
$cid = $email.AddRelatedFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
$sbHtml = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbHtml.Append("<html><body>This is a <b>test</b><br><img src=`"cid:STARFISH_CID`"/></body></html>")
$numReplacements = $sbHtml.Replace("STARFISH_CID",$cid)

$email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody($sbHtml.GetAsString())

# Add some attachments..
$mimeType = $email.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/helloWorld.pdf")
if ($email.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $("Failed to add PDF attachment.")
    exit
}

$mimeType = $email.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/msword/sample2.docx")
if ($email.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $("Failed to add MS-Word attachment.")
    exit
}

# OK.. we now have an HTML email with 2 attachments..
$sbMime = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$email.GetMimeSb($sbMime)

# Send the email.  (GMail has a 5MB limit on the total email size.)
$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http
$http.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"

# Send using the simple upload request for the Gmail API
$url = "https://www.googleapis.com/upload/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?uploadType=media"
$sendGzipped = $true
$resp = $http.PTextSb("POST",$url,$sbMime,"utf-8","message/rfc822",$false,$sendGzipped)
if ($http.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# A status code of 200 indicates success.
$("Response status code: " + $resp.StatusCode)
$("Response body:")
$($resp.BodyStr)

# The response body contains JSON.
# Use the online tool at Generate JSON Parsing Code
# to generate JSON parsing code.

# A sample successful JSON response:

# {
#  "id": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
#  "threadId": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
#  "labelIds": [
#   "SENT"
#  ]
# }