Ruby

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.

Ruby

require 'chilkat'

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 = Chilkat::CkImap.new()

# Connect to an IMAP server.
imap.put_Ssl(true)
imap.put_Port(993)
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

numEmails = imap.get_NumMessages()

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

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
success = imap.FetchEmail(false,numEmails,false,email)
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# 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 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()

eForward.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")

eForward.put_FromAddress("matt@somewhere.com")
eForward.put_FromName("Matt")
eForward.put_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 = Chilkat::CkMailMan.new()

mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.example.com")
mailman.put_SmtpUsername("myLogin")
mailman.put_SmtpPassword("myPassword")
mailman.put_SmtpPort(587)
mailman.put_StartTLS(true)

success = mailman.SendEmail(eForward)
if (success == false)
    print mailman.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
if (success != true)
    print "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly." + "\n";
end

print "Mail Sent!" + "\n";