Create an Inline-Forward Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ToForward method, which creates an inline-forward email based on this email. The forward is returned in the argument, and the source email is not modified. The returned email can be edited — adding recipients, prepending a note — before sending. This example forwards a message and adds a recipient.

Background: An inline forward quotes the original message's content within the body of the new message — the familiar "---------- Forwarded message ----------" style — as opposed to attaching the original as a message/rfc822 part (which AttachEmail does). Chilkat assembles the quoted body and headers for you, leaving the new message ready to address and send.

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bool success = false;

//  Demonstrates the ToForward method, which creates an inline-forward email based on this
//  email.  The forward is returned in the argument; the source email is not modified.

Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email();
email.Subject = "Quarterly results";
email.From = "alice@example.com";
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com");
email.Body = "Here are the quarterly results.";

//  Create an inline-forward email from this message.
Chilkat.Email fwd = new Chilkat.Email();

success = email.ToForward(fwd);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  The forward can be edited to add recipients before sending.
fwd.AddTo("Carol","carol@example.com");

Debug.WriteLine(fwd.GetMime());