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Send GMail using REST API
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Demonstrates how to send an email using the GMail REST API.Chilkat Classic ASP Downloads
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<%
success = 0
' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
' Use the Chilkat Email API to create or load an email.
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
' The From name/address don't need to be specified.
' GMail will automatically use your Gmail address if the following 2 lines are omitted.
email.FromName = "My Name"
email.FromAddress = "my_account_name@gmail.com"
success = email.AddTo("John Smith","somebody@somewhere.com")
' To add more recipients, make additional calls to AddTo or AddCC, one per recipient...
email.Subject = "This is a test GMail email created using Chilkat."
email.Charset = "utf-8"
success = email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is a test")
' Create an HTML email body with an embedded image.
cid = email.AddRelatedFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
set sbHtml = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbHtml.Append("<html><body>This is a <b>test</b><br><img src=""cid:STARFISH_CID""/></body></html>")
numReplacements = sbHtml.Replace("STARFISH_CID",cid)
success = email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody(sbHtml.GetAsString())
' OK.. we now have an HTML email with an embedded JPG image
' We'll need to get the full MIME of the email encoded to a base64url string.
set sbMime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = email.GetMimeSb(sbMime)
success = sbMime.Encode("base64url","utf-8")
' The body of the HTTP request will be JSON..
set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.UpdateSb("raw",sbMime)
' Send the email...
set http = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")
http.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send"
set resp = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
success = http.HttpJson("POST",url,json,"application/json",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
' A status code of 200 indicates success.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response status code: " & resp.StatusCode) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response body:") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( resp.BodyStr) & "</pre>"
' The response body contains JSON.
' Use the online tool at Generate JSON Parsing Code
' to generate JSON parsing code.
' A sample successful JSON response:
' {
' "id": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
' "threadId": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
' "labelIds": [
' "SENT"
' ]
' }
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