Send Email with 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding

Send an email using the "8bit" content-transfer-encoding.

Download Chilkat Perl Module

use chilkat;

#  The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
$mailman = new chilkat::CkMailMan();

#  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
$success = $mailman->UnlockComponent("30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print "Component unlock failed" . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Set the SMTP server.
$mailman->put_SmtpHost("smtp.comcast.net");

#  Create a new email object
$email = new chilkat::CkEmail();

$email->put_Subject("This is a test");
#  The equals character is encoded as =3D in quoted-printable.
#  If the encoding is truly 8bit, we won't see it in the MIME source
#  of the email.  Instead, we'll see the equals character unmodified.
$email->put_Body("This is a test ===");
$email->put_From('Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>');
$email->AddTo("Chilkat Admin",'admin@chilkatsoft.com');

#  Set our content-transfer-encoding to 8bit:
#  The AddHeaderField will replace the header field if it
#  already exists.
$email->AddHeaderField("content-transfer-encoding","8bit");

#  That's it... send the email and the HTML and/or plain-text body
#  will not be encoded using quoted-printable or base64 -- it
#  will instead be sent unencoded as 8-bit characters.
$success = $mailman->SendEmail($email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\n";
}
else {
    print "Mail Sent!" . "\n";
}

#  To see the exact MIME of the email sent, call
#  mailman.RenderToMime:

$mimeSource = $mailman->renderToMime($email);
print "MIME source of email just sent" . "\r\n";
print $mimeSource . "\r\n";