Delphi ActiveX

Get a To Recipient's Address Only

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly-name part) of the Nth To recipient. The index is zero-based. This example adds two To recipients and prints each one's address.

Background: When you need the machine-usable part of a recipient — the actual user@domain — GetToAddr returns it without the surrounding display name. This is what you want for validating addresses, removing duplicates, or checking against an allow/deny list, since the display name is free-form text and unreliable for identity.

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var
email: TChilkatEmail;
n: Integer;
i: Integer;

begin
//  Demonstrates the GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly
//  name) of the Nth To recipient.  The index is zero-based.

email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
email.Subject := 'GetToAddr example';

email.AddTo('Joe Smith','joe@example.com');
email.AddTo('Jane Doe','jane@example.com');

n := email.NumTo;

for i := 0 to n - 1 do
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('To ' + IntToStr(i) + ' address: ' + email.GetToAddr(i));
  end;