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Visual Basic 6.0

Attach Email as message/rfc822 sub-part to an Email

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Demonstrates how to add attach a message/rfc822 email to another email.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

' In this example, we'll attach an email loaded from a .eml file to a new email.

Dim emlBytes() As Byte

Dim fac As New CkFileAccess
emlBytes = fac.ReadEntireFile("qa_data/eml/simple.eml")

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
email.Subject = "This is a test email with an attached email."
email.Body = "Test with attached email."
success = email.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")
email.From = "mary@example.com"

success = email.AttachMessage(emlBytes)

Debug.Print email.GetMime()

' ----------------------------------------------------------------------
' Alternatively, we could do this:
Dim emailToBeAttached As New ChilkatEmail
success = emailToBeAttached.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/simple.eml")

Dim email2 As New ChilkatEmail
email2.Subject = "This is a test email with an attached email."
email2.Body = "Test with attached email."
success = email2.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")
email2.From = "mary@example.com"

Dim emlBytes2() As Byte
emlBytes2 = emailToBeAttached.GetMimeBinary()
success = email2.AttachMessage(emlBytes2)

Debug.Print "----"

Debug.Print email2.GetMime()