Simple Example to Send Email

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This is a simple example showing how to send email in C++.

#define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <crtdbg.h>

#include "CkSettings.h"
#include "CkEmail.h"
#include "CkEmailBundle.h"
#include "CkMailMan.h"
#include "CkString.h"
#include "CkByteData.h"

void EmailExample(void)
    {
    CkMailMan mailman;

    // Any string passed to UnlockComponent begins the 30-day trial.
    bool unlocked = mailman.UnlockComponent("30-day trial");
    if (!unlocked)
	{
	printf("Failed to unlock component\n");
	return;
	}

    mailman.put_SmtpHost("mail.earthlink.net");
    
    // Create the email, add the body, recipients, subject, etc.
    CkEmail email;
    email.put_Body("This is a test\r\nThis is line #2");

    email.AddTo("Chilkat Support","support@chilkatsoft.com");
    
    email.put_FromAddress("somebody@chilkatsoft.com");

    email.put_Subject("This is a test");

    // Send the email
    if (!mailman.SendEmail(&email))
	{
	mailman.SaveLastError("errors.xml");
	}

    }

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                     HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                     LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                     int       nCmdShow)
{
    freopen("stdout.txt","w",stdout);

    EmailExample();

    CkSettings::cleanupMemory();

    _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks();

    return 0;
}