PHP Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Forward by Attaching the Existing Email to a New Email

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Demonstrates how to forward an email by attaching the email to a new email.

This example reads an email from an IMAP server, attaches the email to a new email, and sends the new email.

Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;
use Chilkat2\Imap;
use Chilkat2\MailMan;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Read the 1st (most recent) email in an Inbox.
$imap = new Imap();

// Connect to an IMAP server.
$imap->Ssl = true;
$imap->Port = 993;
try {
    $imap->Connect('imap.example.com');

    // Login
    $imap->Login('myLogin', 'myPassword');

    // Select an IMAP mailbox
    $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');

    $numEmails = $imap->NumMessages;

    // Fetch the email at the last sequence number.
    // (We are assuming the Inbox has at least 1 email)

    $email = new Email();
    $imap->FetchEmail(false, $numEmails, false, $email);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$imap->Disconnect();

echo $email->Subject, "\n";

// Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
$eForward = new Email();

$eForward->AddTo('Joe', 'joe@example.com');

$eForward->FromAddress = 'matt@somewhere.com';
$eForward->FromName = 'Matt';
$eForward->Subject = 'This is an email with another email attached.';

$eForward->SetHtmlBody('<p>Hello, this is an email I\'m forwarding to you.  See the attached email.</p>');

// Attach the email.
$eForward->AttachEmail($email);

// We could save the .eml, then double-click on it to view in our mail program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird..
$eForward->SaveEml('qa_output/forward.eml');

// We could send (forward) the email..
$mailman = new MailMan();

$mailman->SmtpHost = 'smtp.example.com';
$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'myLogin';
$mailman->SmtpPassword = 'myPassword';
$mailman->SmtpPort = 587;
$mailman->StartTLS = true;

try {
    $mailman->SendEmail($eForward);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

try {
    $mailman->CloseSmtpConnection();
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.\n";
}

echo "Mail Sent!\n";