Send Email with 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding

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

Download Chilkat Email ActiveX for POP3 / SMTP

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    --  The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
    DECLARE @mailman int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.MailMan2', @mailman OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    --  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
    DECLARE @success int

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mailman, 'UnlockComponent', @success OUT, '30-day trial'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        PRINT 'Component unlock failed'
        RETURN
      END

    --  Set the SMTP server.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @mailman, 'SmtpHost', 'smtp.comcast.net'

    --  Create a new email object
    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email2', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @email, '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.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @email, 'Body', 'This is a test ==='
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @email, 'From', 'Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'AddTo', NULL, 'Chilkat Admin', 'admin@chilkatsoft.com'

    --  Set our content-transfer-encoding to 8bit:
    --  The AddHeaderField will replace the header field if it
    --  already exists.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'AddHeaderField', NULL, '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.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mailman, 'SendEmail', @success OUT, @email
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @mailman, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
      END
    ELSE
      BEGIN
        PRINT 'Mail Sent!'
      END

    --  To see the exact MIME of the email sent, call
    --  mailman.RenderToMime:
    DECLARE @mimeSource nvarchar(4000)

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mailman, 'RenderToMime', @mimeSource OUT, @email

    PRINT 'MIME source of email just sent'

    PRINT @mimeSource

END
GO