Add File Attachments to an Email

Demonstrates how to add one or more file attachments to an email.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email2")

email.Subject = "This is a test"
email.Body = "This is a test"
email.From = "support@chilkatsoft.com"
email.AddTo "Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com"

'  To add file attachments to an email, call AddFileAttachment
'  once for each file to be attached.  The method returns
'  the content-type of the attachment if successful, otherwise
'  returns cknull

contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("something.pdf")
If (contentType = vbNullString ) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("something.xml")
If (contentType = vbNullString ) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("something.zip")
If (contentType = vbNullString ) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

success = email.SaveEml("email.eml")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode("Saved EML!") & "</pre>"
%>
</body>
</html>