Add Email Attachment from String Variable

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

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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.comcast.net"

'  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")

Dim attachmentContent As String
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 <> true) Then
    MsgBox(mailman.LastErrorText)
Else
    MsgBox("Mail Sent!")
End If