B4X Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Forward by Attaching the Existing Email to a New Email

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Demonstrates how to forward an email by attaching the email to a new email.

This example reads an email from an IMAP server, attaches the email to a new email, and sends the new email.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

'  Read the 1st (most recent) email in an Inbox.
Dim imap As ChilkatImap
imap.Initialize("imap")

'  Connect to an IMAP server.
imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin", "myPassword")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim numEmails As Int = imap.NumMessages

'  Fetch the email at the last sequence number.
'  (We are assuming the Inbox has at least 1 email)

Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize
success = imap.FetchEmail(False, numEmails, False, email)
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect

Log(email.Subject)

'  Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
Dim eForward As ChilkatEmail
eForward.Initialize

eForward.AddTo("Joe", "joe@example.com")

eForward.FromAddress = "matt@somewhere.com"
eForward.FromName = "Matt"
eForward.Subject = "This is an email with another email attached."

eForward.SetHtmlBody("<p>Hello, this is an email I'm forwarding to you.  See the attached email.</p>")

'  Attach the email.
eForward.AttachEmail(email)

'  We could save the .eml, then double-click on it to view in our mail program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird..
eForward.SaveEml("qa_output/forward.eml")

'  We could send (forward) the email..
Dim mailman As ChilkatMailMan
mailman.Initialize("mailman")

mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.example.com"
mailman.SmtpUsername = "myLogin"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"
mailman.SmtpPort = 587
mailman.StartTLS = True

success = mailman.SendEmail(eForward)
If success = False Then
    Log(mailman.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection
If success <> True Then
    Log("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.")
End If


Log("Mail Sent!")