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Send an Email via SMTP

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.SendEmail method, which sends a single Email object through the configured SMTP server. This example configures the SMTP connection, builds a message, and sends it.

Background: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the protocol for sending mail. The typical flow is: connect to the server, authenticate, then hand over the message with MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and DATA. SendEmail wraps all of that: you build an Email with subject, recipients, and body, and Chilkat renders it to MIME and delivers it. Modern submission commonly uses implicit TLS on port 465 (SmtpSsl = true).

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#include <CkMailMan.h>
#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the MailMan.SendEmail method, which sends a single Email object through the
    //  configured SMTP server.

    CkMailMan mailman;

    //  Configure the SMTP server connection.
    mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.example.com");
    mailman.put_SmtpPort(465);
    mailman.put_SmtpSsl(true);
    mailman.put_SmtpUsername("user@example.com");
    mailman.put_SmtpPassword("myPassword");

    //  Build the email to send.
    CkEmail email;
    email.put_Subject("Test email from Chilkat");
    email.put_From("alice@example.com");
    email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com");
    email.put_Body("Hello, this is a test message.");

    //  Send the email.

    success = mailman.SendEmail(email);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << mailman.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "Email sent." << "\r\n";

    //  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.
    }