VB.NET

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.

VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = 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.
Dim imap As New Chilkat.Imap

' Connect to an IMAP server.
imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim numEmails As Integer = imap.NumMessages

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

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
success = imap.FetchEmail(False,numEmails,False,email)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect()

Debug.WriteLine(email.Subject)

' Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
Dim eForward As New Chilkat.Email

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

eForward.FromAddress = "matt@somewhere.com"
eForward.FromName = "Matt"
eForward.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..
Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan

mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.example.com"
mailman.SmtpUsername = "myLogin"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"
mailman.SmtpPort = 587
mailman.StartTLS = True

success = mailman.SendEmail(eForward)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.")
End If


Debug.WriteLine("Mail Sent!")