Perl

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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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$mailman = chilkat::CkMailMan->new();

#  Configure the SMTP server connection.
$mailman->put_SmtpHost("smtp.example.com");
$mailman->put_SmtpPort(465);
$mailman->put_SmtpSsl(1);
$mailman->put_SmtpUsername('user@example.com');
$mailman->put_SmtpPassword("myPassword");

#  Build the email to send.
$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Test email from Chilkat");
$email->put_From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo("Bob",'bob@example.com');
$email->put_Body("Hello, this is a test message.");

#  Send the email.

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

print "Email sent." . "\r\n";

#  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.