Add Email Attachment from String Variable

Adds an text attachment to an email from a string variable.

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");
$email->put_Body("This is a test");
$email->put_From('Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>');
$email->AddTo("Chilkat Admin",'admin@chilkatsoft.com');

$attachmentContent = "This is the content of a text attachment";

#  The last argument indicates the charset to use for the attached text.
#  The string is converted to this charset and attached to the email as a text file attachment.
#  The charset can be anything: "utf-8", "iso-8859-1", "shift_JIS", "ansi", etc.
$email->AddStringAttachment2("myFile.txt",$attachmentContent,"ansi");

$success = $mailman->SendEmail($email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\n";
}
else {
    print "Mail Sent!" . "\n";
}