Lua Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Forward by Attaching the Existing Email to a New Email

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Demonstrates how to forward an email by attaching the email to a new email.

This example reads an email from an IMAP server, attaches the email to a new email, and sends the new email.

Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

-- Read the 1st (most recent) email in an Inbox.
local imap = chilkat.Imap.new()

-- Connect to an IMAP server.
imap.ssl = true
imap.port = 993
local success = imap:connect("imap.example.com")
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Login
success = imap:login("myLogin", "myPassword")
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap:select_mailbox("Inbox")
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

local numEmails = imap.num_messages

-- Fetch the email at the last sequence number.
-- (We are assuming the Inbox has at least 1 email)

local email = chilkat.Email.new()
success = imap:fetch_email(false, numEmails, false, email)
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap:disconnect()

print(email.subject)

-- Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
local eForward = chilkat.Email.new()

eForward:add_to("Joe", "joe@example.com")

eForward.from_address = "matt@somewhere.com"
eForward.from_name = "Matt"
eForward.subject = "This is an email with another email attached."

eForward:set_html_body("<p>Hello, this is an email I'm forwarding to you.  See the attached email.</p>")

-- Attach the email.
eForward:attach_email(email)

-- We could save the .eml, then double-click on it to view in our mail program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird..
eForward:save_eml("qa_output/forward.eml")

-- We could send (forward) the email..
local mailman = chilkat.MailMan.new()

mailman.smtp_host = "smtp.example.com"
mailman.smtp_username = "myLogin"
mailman.smtp_password = "myPassword"
mailman.smtp_port = 587
mailman.start_tls = true

success = mailman:send_email(eForward)
if not success then
    print(mailman.last_error_text)
    return
end

success = mailman:close_smtp_connection()
if not success then
    print("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.")
end

print("Mail Sent!")