Zig Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Forward by Attaching the Existing Email to a New Email

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Demonstrates how to forward an email by attaching the email to a new email.

This example reads an email from an IMAP server, attaches the email to a new email, and sends the new email.

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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

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

    // Read the 1st (most recent) email in an Inbox.
    const imap = try chilkat.Imap.init();
    defer imap.deinit();

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    imap.setSsl(true);
    imap.setPort(993);
    imap.connect("imap.example.com") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Login
    imap.login("myLogin", "myPassword") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Select an IMAP mailbox
    imap.selectMailbox("Inbox") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    const num_emails = imap.getNumMessages();

    // Fetch the email at the last sequence number.
    // (We are assuming the Inbox has at least 1 email)

    const email = try chilkat.Email.init();
    defer email.deinit();
    imap.fetchEmail(false, @as(u32, @intCast(num_emails)), false, email) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    imap.disconnect() catch {};

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try email.getSubject(alloc)});

    // Create a new email.  The email we just read will be attached to this email.
    const e_forward = try chilkat.Email.init();
    defer e_forward.deinit();

    e_forward.addTo("Joe", "joe@example.com") catch {};

    e_forward.setFromAddress("matt@somewhere.com");
    e_forward.setFromName("Matt");
    e_forward.setSubject("This is an email with another email attached.");

    e_forward.setHtmlBody("<p>Hello, this is an email I'm forwarding to you.  See the attached email.</p>");

    // Attach the email.
    e_forward.attachEmail(email) catch {};

    // We could save the .eml, then double-click on it to view in our mail program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird..
    e_forward.saveEml("qa_output/forward.eml") catch {};

    // We could send (forward) the email..
    const mailman = try chilkat.MailMan.init();
    defer mailman.deinit();

    mailman.setSmtpHost("smtp.example.com");
    mailman.setSmtpUsername("myLogin");
    mailman.setSmtpPassword("myPassword");
    mailman.setSmtpPort(587);
    mailman.setStartTLS(true);

    mailman.sendEmail(e_forward) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try mailman.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    mailman.closeSmtpConnection() catch {
        std.debug.print("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.\n", .{});
    };

    std.debug.print("Mail Sent!\n", .{});
}