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Attach a File with an Explicit Content Type

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddFileAttachment2 method, which attaches a file from the filesystem and lets you explicitly specify its content type rather than having Chilkat infer it from the file extension. This example attaches a binary file as application/octet-stream.

Background: Extension-based type detection is convenient but not always right — a file may have an unusual or missing extension, or you may need a very specific MIME type for the recipient to process it correctly. Specifying the content type explicitly removes the guesswork. application/octet-stream is the generic "arbitrary binary data" type, a safe default that tells the client to treat the attachment as an opaque download rather than trying to render it.

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oEmail

nSuccess := 0

//  Demonstrates the AddFileAttachment2 method, which attaches a file and lets you
//  explicitly specify its content type instead of letting Chilkat infer it.

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

//  Attach a file, explicitly specifying the content type.
nSuccess := oEmail:AddFileAttachment2("qa_data/attachments/data.bin", "application/octet-stream")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oEmail:LastErrorText
    oEmail:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "NumAttachments = " + Str(oEmail:NumAttachments)

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

oEmail:destroy()