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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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llSuccess = .F.

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

loMailman = createobject("CkMailMan")

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

//  Build the email to send.
loEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
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.

llSuccess = loMailman.SendEmail(loEmail)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    release loMailman
    release loEmail
    return
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