Visual FoxPro

Attach a File to an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddFileAttachment method, which attaches a file read from the filesystem. It returns the content type Chilkat assigned to the attachment (inferred from the file extension). This example attaches a PDF and prints its detected content type.

Background: Each attachment carries a Content-Type (MIME type) such as application/pdf or image/png that tells the receiving client how to handle it. Chilkat gets this from the file's extension. Because attachment bytes are binary, they are Base64-encoded for transport, which is handled automatically — you simply point AddFileAttachment at a path and the file is read, encoded, and packaged into the message.

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LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL lcContentType

*  Demonstrates the AddFileAttachment method, which attaches a file read from the
*  filesystem.  It returns the content type Chilkat assigned to the attachment (based on
*  the file extension), or returns failure if the file could not be read.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Email with a file attachment"
loEmail.Body = "Please see the attached file."

*  Attach a file.  The return value is the auto-detected content type.
lcContentType = loEmail.AddFileAttachment("qa_data/attachments/report.pdf")
IF (loEmail.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Attached content type = " + lcContentType
? "NumAttachments = " + STR(loEmail.NumAttachments)

*  Note: The path "qa_data/attachments/report.pdf" is a relative local filesystem path,
*  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

RELEASE loEmail