Lua

Create an Inline-Forward Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ToForward method, which creates an inline-forward email based on this email. The forward is returned in the argument, and the source email is not modified. The returned email can be edited — adding recipients, prepending a note — before sending. This example forwards a message and adds a recipient.

Background: An inline forward quotes the original message's content within the body of the new message — the familiar "---------- Forwarded message ----------" style — as opposed to attaching the original as a message/rfc822 part (which AttachEmail does). Chilkat assembles the quoted body and headers for you, leaving the new message ready to address and send.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the ToForward method, which creates an inline-forward email based on this
-- email.  The forward is returned in the argument; the source email is not modified.

local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "Quarterly results"
email.from = "alice@example.com"
email:add_to("Bob", "bob@example.com")
email.body = "Here are the quarterly results."

-- Create an inline-forward email from this message.
local fwd = chilkat.Email.new()

local success = email:to_forward(fwd)
if not success then
    print(email.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- The forward can be edited to add recipients before sending.
fwd:add_to("Carol", "carol@example.com")

print(fwd:get_mime())