Perl

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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('Quarterly results');
$email->From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body('Here are the quarterly results.');

# Create an inline-forward email from this message.
my $fwd = Chilkat2::Email->new;

my $success = $email->ToForward($fwd);
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# The forward can be edited to add recipients before sending.
$fwd->AddTo('Carol', 'carol@example.com');

print $fwd->GetMime(), "\n";