SQL Server

Get a To Recipient's Address Only

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly-name part) of the Nth To recipient. The index is zero-based. This example adds two To recipients and prints each one's address.

Background: When you need the machine-usable part of a recipient — the actual user@domain — GetToAddr returns it without the surrounding display name. This is what you want for validating addresses, removing duplicates, or checking against an allow/deny list, since the display name is free-form text and unreliable for identity.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    --  Demonstrates the GetToAddr method, which returns only the address part (not the friendly
    --  name) of the Nth To recipient.  The index is zero-based.

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @email, 'Subject', 'GetToAddr example'

    DECLARE @success int
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'AddTo', @success OUT, 'Joe Smith', 'joe@example.com'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'AddTo', @success OUT, 'Jane Doe', 'jane@example.com'

    DECLARE @n int
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'NumTo', @n OUT
    DECLARE @i int

    SELECT @i = 0
    WHILE @i <= @n - 1
      BEGIN


        EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'GetToAddr', @sTmp0 OUT, @i
        PRINT 'To ' + @i + ' address: ' + @sTmp0
        SELECT @i = @i + 1
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email


END
GO