Visual FoxPro

Set the Email Body from a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in a BinData object. The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the disposition (may be empty, inline, or attachment), and the fourth is the filename. This example loads HTML content into a BinData and sets it as the body.

Background: SetBodyBd gives low-level control over the body when you already have its bytes and want to specify the exact Content-Type and MIME disposition yourself. It suits content that is generated or stored as binary — for example an EDI payload, a pre-rendered HTML fragment, or any custom content type — where the convenience of SetHtmlBody / SetTextBody does not apply.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL loBd

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in
*  a BinData object.  The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the
*  disposition (may be empty, "inline", or "attachment"), and the fourth is the filename.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Body from BinData"

*  Load the body content from a file into a BinData object.
loBd = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')
lnSuccess = loBd.LoadFile("qa_data/html/body.html")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loBd.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    RELEASE loBd
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Set the main body from the binary data as text/html.
lnSuccess = loEmail.SetBodyBd(loBd,"text/html","","")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    RELEASE loBd
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "HasHtmlBody: " + STR(loEmail.HasHtmlBody())

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

RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loBd