Add File Attachments to an Email

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

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Dim email As New Chilkat.Email()

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

Dim success As Boolean

'  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
Dim contentType As String

contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("something.pdf")
If (contentType = vbNullString ) Then
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If


contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("something.xml")
If (contentType = vbNullString ) Then
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If


contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("something.zip")
If (contentType = vbNullString ) Then
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If

success = email.SaveEml("email.eml")
If (success = false) Then
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If


MsgBox("Saved EML!")