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Attach a File to an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddFileAttachment method, which attaches a file read from the filesystem. It returns the content type Chilkat assigned to the attachment (inferred from the file extension). This example attaches a PDF and prints its detected content type.

Background: Each attachment carries a Content-Type (MIME type) such as application/pdf or image/png that tells the receiving client how to handle it. Chilkat gets this from the file's extension. Because attachment bytes are binary, they are Base64-encoded for transport, which is handled automatically — you simply point AddFileAttachment at a path and the file is read, encoded, and packaged into the message.

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LOCAL oEmail
LOCAL cContentType

//  Demonstrates the AddFileAttachment method, which attaches a file read from the
//  filesystem.  It returns the content type Chilkat assigned to the attachment (based on
//  the file extension), or returns failure if the file could not be read.

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Email with a file attachment"
oEmail:Body := "Please see the attached file."

//  Attach a file.  The return value is the auto-detected content type.
cContentType := oEmail:AddFileAttachment("qa_data/attachments/report.pdf")
IF (oEmail:LastMethodSuccess == 0)
    ? oEmail:LastErrorText
    oEmail:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "Attached content type = " + cContentType
? "NumAttachments = " + Str(oEmail:NumAttachments)

//  Note: The path "qa_data/attachments/report.pdf" is a relative local filesystem path,
//  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

oEmail:destroy()