Visual FoxPro

Send an Email via SMTP

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.SendEmail method, which sends a single Email object through the configured SMTP server. This example configures the SMTP connection, builds a message, and sends it.

Background: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the protocol for sending mail. The typical flow is: connect to the server, authenticate, then hand over the message with MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and DATA. SendEmail wraps all of that: you build an Email with subject, recipients, and body, and Chilkat renders it to MIME and delivers it. Modern submission commonly uses implicit TLS on port 465 (SmtpSsl = true).

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMailman
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the MailMan.SendEmail method, which sends a single Email object through the
*  configured SMTP server.

loMailman = CreateObject('Chilkat.MailMan')

*  Configure the SMTP server connection.
loMailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.example.com"
loMailman.SmtpPort = 465
loMailman.SmtpSsl = 1
loMailman.SmtpUsername = "user@example.com"
loMailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"

*  Build the email to send.
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Test email from Chilkat"
loEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
loEmail.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
loEmail.Body = "Hello, this is a test message."

*  Send the email.

lnSuccess = loMailman.SendEmail(loEmail)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Email sent."

*  Note: Explicitly connecting/authenticating is optional.  Chilkat MailMan automatically
*  connects and authenticates -- using the property settings above -- whenever a server
*  operation requires it.  Calling the explicit connect/authenticate methods can still be
*  helpful to determine whether a failure occurs while connecting or while authenticating.

RELEASE loMailman
RELEASE loEmail