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Explaining the Email FromName, FromAddress, and From Properties

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This example explains the email object's FromName, FromAddress, and From properties. Xojo Plugin

// The email's FROM name and address can be set in several ways.
// It can include an optional friendly name (which is just a description),
// and it must include an address.

// For example:
Dim email1 As New Chilkat.Email
email1.Subject = "test"
email1.Body = "test"

email1.FromName = "Joe Sample"
email1.FromAddress = "joe.sample@example.com"

// the From property contains both the FromName and FromAddress
// This produces the following output:
// From: "Joe Sample" <joe.sample@example.com>
System.DebugLog("From: " + email1.From)
System.DebugLog("--------------------------------------------------")

// Examine the MIME of the email:
System.DebugLog(email1.GetMime())
System.DebugLog("--------------------------------------------------")

// Output is:

// 	MIME-Version: 1.0
// 	Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:32:13 -0600
// 	Message-ID: <02B461C6D12FA6686C3151A649ED8D5BBFBE0721@CHILKAT13>
// 	Content-Type: text/plain
// 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
// 	X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
// 	Subject: test
// 	From: "Joe Sample" <joe.sample@example.com>
// 
// 	test

// --------------------------------------------
// Alternatively, the From property can be set, and this 
// implicitly sets the FromName and FromAddress properties.

Dim email2 As New Chilkat.Email
email2.From = "Joe Sample <joe.sample@example.com>"

System.DebugLog("FromName: " + email2.FromName)
System.DebugLog("FromAddress: " + email2.FromAddress)
System.DebugLog("--------------------------------------------------")

System.DebugLog(email2.GetMime())