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Send an Email via SMTP

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.SendEmail method, which sends a single Email object through the configured SMTP server. This example configures the SMTP connection, builds a message, and sends it.

Background: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the protocol for sending mail. The typical flow is: connect to the server, authenticate, then hand over the message with MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and DATA. SendEmail wraps all of that: you build an Email with subject, recipients, and body, and Chilkat renders it to MIME and delivers it. Modern submission commonly uses implicit TLS on port 465 (SmtpSsl = true).

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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oMailman
LOCAL oEmail

nSuccess := 0

//  Demonstrates the MailMan.SendEmail method, which sends a single Email object through the
//  configured SMTP server.

oMailman := CreateObject("Chilkat.MailMan")

//  Configure the SMTP server connection.
oMailman:SmtpHost := "smtp.example.com"
oMailman:SmtpPort := 465
oMailman:SmtpSsl := 1
oMailman:SmtpUsername := "user@example.com"
oMailman:SmtpPassword := "myPassword"

//  Build the email to send.
oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Test email from Chilkat"
oEmail:From := "alice@example.com"
oEmail:AddTo("Bob", "bob@example.com")
oEmail:Body := "Hello, this is a test message."

//  Send the email.

nSuccess := oMailman:SendEmail(oEmail)
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oMailman:LastErrorText
    oMailman:destroy()
    oEmail:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "Email sent."

//  Note: Explicitly connecting/authenticating is optional.  Chilkat MailMan automatically
//  connects and authenticates -- using the property settings above -- whenever a server
//  operation requires it.  Calling the explicit connect/authenticate methods can still be
//  helpful to determine whether a failure occurs while connecting or while authenticating.

oMailman:destroy()
oEmail:destroy()