VB.NET

Send HTML Email with CSS as Related Item using Content-Location

Demonstrates how to compose an HTML email with an external CSS file included as a related item and referenced by Content-Location.

Some email clients display embedded (related) content best using CID's (Content-IDs), whereas other email clients display related content best by Content-Location. The choice you make may depend on the software used by the intended recipient of your email. (Does' the recipient read email on an iPhone? Android? Outlook? GMail? Thunderbird? etc.)

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Dim success As Boolean = False

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

' The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan

' Use your SMTP server hostname.  This example uses office365, but it could be any SMTP server..
mailman.SmtpHost = "outlook.office365.com"
mailman.SmtpPort = 587
mailman.StartTLS = True

' Set the SMTP login/password
mailman.SmtpUsername = "OFFICE365-SMTP-LOGIN"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "OFFICE365-SMTP-PASSWORD"

' Create a new email object
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "HTML Email with embedded CSS"
email.From = "Chilkat Support <my-office365-user@mydomain.com>"
email.AddTo("Chilkat Support","support@chilkatsoft.com")

Dim sbCss As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
Dim bCrlf As Boolean = True
sbCss.AppendLine("body {",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("    background-color: powderblue;",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("}",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("h1 {",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("    color: blue;",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("}",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("p {",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("    color: red;",bCrlf)
sbCss.AppendLine("}",bCrlf)

' The filenameInHtml is what should exists within the HTML (in the href atribute)
Dim filenameInHtml As String = "styles.css"
' Call AddRelatedString2 to use Content-Location.
email.AddRelatedString2(filenameInHtml,sbCss.GetAsString(),"utf-8")

Dim sbHtml As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sbHtml.AppendLine("<!DOCTYPE html>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("<html>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("<head>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("  <link rel=""stylesheet"" href=""styles.css"">",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("</head>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("<body>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("<h1>This is a heading</h1>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("<p>This is a paragraph.</p>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("</body>",bCrlf)
sbHtml.AppendLine("</html>",bCrlf)

email.SetHtmlBody(sbHtml.GetAsString())

success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText)
Else
    Debug.WriteLine("Mail Sent!")
End If