Perl

Create a Reply Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and body fields so it can be sent as a reply. Attachments are excluded from the reply, but attached messages are included. The source email is not modified. This example creates a reply and prints its MIME.

Background: Replying is more than swapping sender and recipient: the To is set from the original's reply address, the subject gets an Re: prefix, the original text is quoted, and threading headers (In-Reply-To, References) are added so mail clients group the conversation. ToReply assembles all of that, leaving a message you can edit and send. Dropping attachments is the usual reply convention — you rarely echo the sender's files back to them.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and
#  body fields ready to send as a reply.  Attachments are excluded from the reply, but
#  attached messages are included.  The source email is not modified.

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Project update");
$email->put_From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo("Bob",'bob@example.com');
$email->put_Body("Here is the project update.");

#  Create a reply email based on this message.
$reply = chilkat::CkEmail->new();

$success = $email->ToReply($reply);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  The reply is addressed and quoted, ready to edit and send.
print $reply->getMime() . "\r\n";