Chilkat sending mail to Office 365 with attachments I'm stuck.

Babs23 · Jun 22, 2023

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone has experience with Chilkat I'm currently just running the 30 day trial to see if it can do what I want it to.
My company is moving from a dedicated mail server on site to Office 365, a number of our current Foxpro forms automatically generate an email for our end customer using Westwind Utils and it works great but I cannot figure out how to use WW for 365 and so am trialling Chilkat.

Code:

LOCAL loJsonToken
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMailman
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL loAttach1

SET DEFAULT TO "T:\WIPTRACK\Chilkat"

* First get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
loJsonToken = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loJsonToken.LoadFile("t:\wiptrack\chilkat\token\office365.json")

loMailman = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.MailMan')

loMailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.office365.com"
loMailman.SmtpPort = 587
loMailman.StartTLS = 1

* Use your Office365 email address for the SmtpUsername.
loMailman.SmtpUsername = "it@DOMAIN.onmicrosoft.com"
loMailman.OAuth2AccessToken = loJsonToken.StringOf("access_token")

* Create a new email object
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Email')

loAttach1 = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData')
loAttach1.LoadFile("C:\1\c2v.txt")

loEmail.Subject = "This is sent via chilkat in vfp"
loEmail.Body = "This is a test"
loEmail.From = "IT <it@DOMAIN.onmicrosoft.com>"
lnSuccess = loEmail.AddTo("Testing email","babs23@DOMAIN.co.uk")

lnSuccess = loMailman.SendEmail(loEmail)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    thisform.edit1.Value= loMailman.LastErrorText &&debug purposes
    RELEASE loJsonToken
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loMailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    thisform.Label1.Caption= "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly."
ELSE
	thisform.Label1.Caption= "Mail Sent!"   
ENDIF

RELEASE loJsonToken
RELEASE loMailman
RELEASE loEmail

This is the current code I am running to try and send an email with an attachment I am receiving the email just without the file attached I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Cheers,
Babs.

Babs23 · Jun 22, 2023

I have managed to figure it out and will leave my solution here for anyone else that is struggling.
I hope it helps someone in the future!

Code:

* Create a new email object
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Email')

[s]loAttach1 = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData')
loAttach1.LoadFile("C:\1\c2v.txt")[/s]

loEmail.AddFileAttachment("C:\1\c2v.txt") &&Working

loEmail.Subject = "This is sent via chilkat in vfp"
loEmail.Body = "This is a test"
loEmail.From = "IT <it@DOMAIN.onmicrosoft.com>"
lnSuccess = loEmail.AddTo("Testing email","babs23@DOMAIN.co.uk")

Chris Miller · Jun 22, 2023

Well,

it was obvious already, just loading a file into a Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData object doesn't attach it to the mail, no matter if you name it oAttach or not. Just like creating oTextbox = CreateObject("tettbox") and wondering why no textbox appears on a form. It's just there standalone, not attached to anything.

And the mail object has an AddFileAttachment method you finally found yourself.

Chilkat also has so many code samples...

https://www.example-code.com/foxpro/email_attachments.asp

Always refer to all the Chilkat code samples at

https://www.example-code.com/foxpro/default.asp

In your case find "Email object" on the left side, that's leading to

https://www.example-code.com/foxpro/emailObj.asp

and then just search on the page, CTRL+F, and searching either "attach" or "file" leads to the code sample you need.

Chriss

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Chilkat sending mail to Office 365 with attachments I'm stuck.

Babs23

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