Send Email with Inline Attachment

Create an send an email with an inline attachment.

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'  The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan()

'  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
Dim success As Boolean
success = mailman.UnlockComponent("30-day trial")
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox("Component unlock failed")
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Set the SMTP server.
mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.chilkatsoft.com"

'  You may need a login/password.  In many cases,
'  authentication is not required when sending local email
'  (i.e. to email addresses having the same domain as the
'  SMTP server), but is required when sending to non-local
'  recipients.
mailman.SmtpUsername = "myLogin"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"

'  Create a new email object
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email()

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

'  Add any number of attachments:
Dim contentType As String

contentType = email.AddFileAttachment("c:/temp/dude.gif")
If (contentType Is Nothing ) Then
    MsgBox(email.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Update the content-disposition header field for the attachment
'  so that it's sent inline:
'  AddAttachmentHeader replaces the header field if it already
'  exists.
email.AddAttachmentHeader(0,"content-disposition","inline; filename=""dude.gif""")

success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox(mailman.LastErrorText)
Else
    MsgBox("Mail Sent!")
End If