Ruby

Explaining the Email FromName, FromAddress, and From Properties

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This example explains the email object's FromName, FromAddress, and From properties. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

# The email's FROM name and address can be set in several ways.
# It can include an optional friendly name (which is just a description),
# and it must include an address.

# For example:
email1 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email1.put_Subject("test")
email1.put_Body("test")

email1.put_FromName("Joe Sample")
email1.put_FromAddress("joe.sample@example.com")

# the From property contains both the FromName and FromAddress
# This produces the following output:
# From: "Joe Sample" <joe.sample@example.com>
print "From: " + email1.ck_from() + "\n";
print "--------------------------------------------------" + "\n";

# Examine the MIME of the email:
print email1.getMime() + "\n";
print "--------------------------------------------------" + "\n";

# Output is:

# 	MIME-Version: 1.0
# 	Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:32:13 -0600
# 	Message-ID: <02B461C6D12FA6686C3151A649ED8D5BBFBE0721@CHILKAT13>
# 	Content-Type: text/plain
# 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
# 	X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
# 	Subject: test
# 	From: "Joe Sample" <joe.sample@example.com>
# 
# 	test

# --------------------------------------------
# Alternatively, the From property can be set, and this 
# implicitly sets the FromName and FromAddress properties.

email2 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email2.put_From("Joe Sample <joe.sample@example.com>")

print "FromName: " + email2.fromName() + "\n";
print "FromAddress: " + email2.fromAddress() + "\n";
print "--------------------------------------------------" + "\n";

print email2.getMime() + "\n";