Visual FoxPro

Save an Email to a .eml File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to a file. An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message — headers, bodies, related items, and attachments. This example builds a message and saves it.

Background: Saving as .eml writes the message in the universal MIME format that virtually every mail client can open, making it ideal for archiving, sharing, or handing a message to another program. It is the counterpart to LoadEml. A saved .eml also retains Chilkat's CKX- metadata headers (a way to store your own metadata with the email; they are always stripped before an email is sent), so .eml is the recommended way to persist a message even within Chilkat-based software. A separate Chilkat XML format (SaveXml) exists as an alternative, but offers no metadata advantage over .eml.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to
*  a file.  An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message, including headers,
*  bodies, related items, and attachments.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Save as EML"
loEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
loEmail.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
loEmail.Body = "Hello, this message will be saved as a .eml file."

*  Save the email to a .eml file.
lnSuccess = loEmail.SaveEml("qa_output/message.eml")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Saved to message.eml."

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

RELEASE loEmail