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Outlook Send Email with Attachments

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This example sends a plain-text email with attachments. Other examples exist for:
  • Sending plain-text email.
  • Sending HTML email.
  • Sending HTML email with embedded images.
  • Sending HTML email with embedded images and attachments.

This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    -- Important: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.68 or greater.

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

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Use your previously obtained access token here:
    -- See the following examples for getting an access token:
    --    Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
    --    Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).
    --    Refresh Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
    --    Refresh Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'AuthToken', 'MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN'

    -- To send mail, we'll POST to the following endpoint:
    -- 
    -- POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/sendMail
    -- 
    -- (The special keyword "me" may be used in place of a principal name.)
    -- 

    -- Load the files to be attached.
    DECLARE @attach1 int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.BinData', @attach1 OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @attach1, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf'
    DECLARE @attach2 int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.BinData', @attach2 OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @attach2, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/msword/sample.docx'

    -- The body of the POST request contains JSON that specifies the email subject, body,
    -- recipients, etc.  This example will build the following JSON plain-text email:
    -- 

    -- 	{
    -- 	  "message": {
    -- 	    "subject": "Sample Email with Attachments",
    -- 	    "body": {
    -- 	      "contentType": "Text",
    -- 	      "content": "This is the plain-text body..."
    -- 	    },
    -- 	    "toRecipients": [
    -- 	      {
    -- 	        "emailAddress": {
    -- 		  "name": "Chilkat Software",
    -- 	          "address": "admin@chilkat.io"
    -- 	        }
    -- 	      },
    -- 	      {
    -- 	        "emailAddress": {
    -- 	          "address": "chilkat.support@gmail.com"
    -- 	        }
    -- 	      }
    -- 	    ],
    -- 	    "ccRecipients": [
    -- 	      {
    -- 	        "emailAddress": {
    -- 		  "name": "Chilkat Blog",
    -- 		  "address": "admin@cknotes.com"
    -- 	        }
    -- 	      }
    -- 	    ],
    -- 	    "attachments": [
    -- 	       {
    -- 	         "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
    -- 	         "name": "fishing.pdf",
    -- 	         "contentType": "application/pdf",
    -- 	         "size": <theActualSize>,
    -- 	         "isInline": false,
    -- 	         "contentBytes": "base64_data_here"
    -- 	       },
    -- 	       {
    -- 	         "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
    -- 	         "name": "sample.docx",
    -- 	         "contentType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
    -- 	         "size": <theActualSize>,
    -- 	         "isInline": false,
    -- 	         "contentBytes": "base64_data_here"
    -- 	       }
    -- 	    ]
    -- 	  },
    -- 	  "saveToSentItems": true
    -- 	}
    -- 
    -- Build the above JSON.
    DECLARE @json int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @json OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.subject', 'Sample Email with Attachments'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.body.contentType', 'Text'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.body.content', 'This is the plain-text body...'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.toRecipients[0].emailAddress.name', 'Chilkat Software'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.toRecipients[0].emailAddress.address', 'admin@chilkat.io'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.toRecipients[1].emailAddress.address', 'chilkat.support@gmail.com'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.ccRecipients[0].emailAddress.name', 'Chilkat Blog'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.ccRecipients[0].emailAddress.address', 'admin@cknotes.com'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0]."@odata.type"', '#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].name', 'fishing.pdf'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].contentType', 'application/pdf'
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @attach1, 'NumBytes', @iTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateInt', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].size', @iTmp0
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].isInline', 0
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBd', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[0].contentBytes', 'base64', @attach1

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1]."@odata.type"', '#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].name', 'sample.docx'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].contentType', 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document'
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @attach2, 'NumBytes', @iTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateInt', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].size', @iTmp0
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].isInline', 0
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBd', @success OUT, 'message.attachments[1].contentBytes', 'base64', @attach2

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'saveToSentItems', 1

    -- -------------------------------------------------------------
    -- Important: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.68 or greater.
    -- -------------------------------------------------------------

    -- Send the HTTP POST (i.e. send the HTML email)
    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpJson', @success OUT, 'POST', 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/sendMail', @json, 'application/json', @resp
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @attach1
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @attach2
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        RETURN
      END

    -- The send succeeded if the response status code = 202.
    -- In the success case, there is no response body.  (We just get the response code to know that it succeeded.)
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 202
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'Load', @success OUT, @sTmp0
        EXEC sp_OASetProperty @json, 'EmitCompact', 0
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'Emit', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0

        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
        PRINT 'Failed, response status code = ' + @iTmp0
      END
    ELSE
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Outlook Mail with Attachments Sent.'
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @attach1
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @attach2
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp


END
GO