Xojo Plugin

Send HTML Email with Image to iPhone

Demonstrates how to compose an HTML email with an embedded image that will display correctly on an iPhone. This example produces an email that looks like this on the iPhone:

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

// The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan

// Use your SMTP server hostname.  This example uses office365, but it could be any SMTP server..
mailman.SmtpHost = "outlook.office365.com"
mailman.SmtpPort = 587
mailman.StartTLS = True

// Set the SMTP login/password
mailman.SmtpUsername = "OFFICE365-SMTP-LOGIN"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "OFFICE365-SMTP-PASSWORD"

// Create a new email object
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "Testing for Chilkat SMTP API..."
email.Body = "Testing for Chilkat SMTP API..."
email.From = "Chilkat Support <my-office365-user@mydomain.com>"
success = email.AddTo("Chilkat Support","support@chilkatsoft.com")

// For whatever reason, the iPhone's email program requires
// images in HTML to be referenced by Content-ID.  Therefore,
// we must add the image like this:
Dim contentIdStarfish As String
contentIdStarfish = email.AddRelatedFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
If (email.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// The src attribute for the image tag is set to the contentIdStarfish:
Dim sbHtml As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = sbHtml.Append("<html><body><p>This is an HTML email with an embedded image.</p>")
success = sbHtml.Append("<p><img src=""cid:CONTENT_ID_STARFISH"" /></p></body></html>")
Dim numReplacements As Int32
numReplacements = sbHtml.Replace("CONTENT_ID_STARFISH",contentIdStarfish)

email.SetHtmlBody sbHtml.GetAsString()

success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(mailman.LastErrorText)
Else
    System.DebugLog("Mail Sent!")
End If