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 strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $mailman = Chilkat2::MailMan->new;

# Configure the SMTP server connection.
$mailman->SmtpHost('smtp.example.com');
$mailman->SmtpPort(465);
$mailman->SmtpSsl(1);
$mailman->SmtpUsername('user@example.com');
$mailman->SmtpPassword('myPassword');

# Build the email to send.
my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('Test email from Chilkat');
$email->From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body('Hello, this is a test message.');

# Send the email.

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

print "Email sent.\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.