Classic ASP

Send MIME Bytes from a BinData via SMTP

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.SendMimeBd method, which sends an email from caller-supplied MIME bytes held in a BinData. The arguments are the from address, the recipient list (the SMTP envelope recipients), and the BinData containing the MIME. This example loads a .eml file into a BinData and sends it.

Important: When sending caller-supplied MIME, ensure the Message-ID header is unique for each message. Sending MIME whose Message-ID was previously used can cause the message to be silently discarded as a duplicate by mail servers — see chilkatsoft.com/email_duplicate_message_id.asp.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to SendMime (which takes MIME as a string). Working from a BinData is the right choice when the message's raw bytes come straight from a file, a database blob, or a network stream — it delivers them byte-for-byte with no charset conversion that could alter the original, which matters because MIME can carry binary transfer encodings.

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<%
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the MailMan.SendMimeBd method, which sends an email from caller-supplied MIME
'  bytes held in a BinData.  The arguments are the from address, the recipient list (the SMTP
'  envelope recipients), and the BinData containing the MIME.

set mailman = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.MailMan")

'  Configure the SMTP server connection.
mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.example.com"
mailman.SmtpPort = 465
mailman.SmtpSsl = 1
mailman.SmtpUsername = "user@example.com"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"

'  Load the MIME bytes to send.  Here we read a .eml file, but the bytes could come from
'  any source.
set bdMime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
success = bdMime.LoadFile("qa_data/eml/message.eml")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( bdMime.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  IMPORTANT: When sending caller-supplied MIME, make sure the Message-ID header is unique
'  for each message.  Sending MIME that contains a Message-ID that was previously sent can
'  cause the message to be silently discarded as a duplicate by mail servers.  For details,
'  see: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/email_duplicate_message_id.asp

'  Send the MIME bytes to the envelope recipient(s).
success = mailman.SendMimeBd("alice@example.com","bob@example.com",bdMime)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mailman.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "MIME email sent.") & "</pre>"

'  Note: The path "qa_data/eml/message.eml" is a relative local filesystem path,
'  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

'  Note: Explicitly connecting/authenticating is optional.  Chilkat MailMan automatically
'  connects and authenticates -- using the property settings above -- whenever a server
'  operation requires it.  Calling the explicit connect/authenticate methods can still be
'  helpful to determine whether a failure occurs while connecting or while authenticating.

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