Visual FoxPro

Create a Reply Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and body fields so it can be sent as a reply. Attachments are excluded from the reply, but attached messages are included. The source email is not modified. This example creates a reply and prints its MIME.

Background: Replying is more than swapping sender and recipient: the To is set from the original's reply address, the subject gets an Re: prefix, the original text is quoted, and threading headers (In-Reply-To, References) are added so mail clients group the conversation. ToReply assembles all of that, leaving a message you can edit and send. Dropping attachments is the usual reply convention — you rarely echo the sender's files back to them.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL loReply

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and
*  body fields ready to send as a reply.  Attachments are excluded from the reply, but
*  attached messages are included.  The source email is not modified.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Project update"
loEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
loEmail.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
loEmail.Body = "Here is the project update."

*  Create a reply email based on this message.
loReply = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

lnSuccess = loEmail.ToReply(loReply)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    RELEASE loReply
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  The reply is addressed and quoted, ready to edit and send.
? loReply.GetMime()

RELEASE loEmail
RELEASE loReply