Send a Bundle of Emails via SMTP

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Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.SendBundle method, which sends each email in an EmailBundle. This is equivalent to calling SendEmail once for each email in the bundle. This example builds a bundle of two messages and sends them.

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the MailMan.SendBundle method, which sends each email in an EmailBundle.
-- This is equivalent to calling SendEmail once for each email in the bundle.

local mailman = chilkat.MailMan.new()

-- Configure the SMTP server connection.
mailman.smtp_host = "smtp.example.com"
mailman.smtp_port = 465
mailman.smtp_ssl = true
mailman.smtp_username = "user@example.com"
mailman.smtp_password = "myPassword"

-- Build a bundle of emails to send.
local bundle = chilkat.EmailBundle.new()

local email1 = chilkat.Email.new()
email1.subject = "Message 1"
email1.from = "alice@example.com"
email1:add_to("Bob", "bob@example.com")
email1.body = "This is the first message."
bundle:add_email(email1)

local email2 = chilkat.Email.new()
email2.subject = "Message 2"
email2.from = "alice@example.com"
email2:add_to("Carol", "carol@example.com")
email2.body = "This is the second message."
bundle:add_email(email2)

-- Send every email in the bundle.

local success = mailman:send_bundle(bundle)
if not success then
    print(mailman.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("Sent " .. bundle.message_count .. " emails.")

-- 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.