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MHTML Features
Chilkat Mail makes it easy to send and receive HTML
formatted emails with embedded, internally referenced images.
The standard way of doing this is to format emails using a MIME
content type called "multipart/related". Chilkat Mail
does this for you, and you don't have to know anything about the
structure of "multipart/related" MIME messages. (For
those that do, Chilkat Mail does handle "multipart/alternative"
messages contained within "multipart/related". If fact,
ChilkatMail can handle messages of any complexity.)
Sending a HTML email with an image:
Here is an example of creating and sending an email
that has an HTML body, and references an internal image.
Dim mailman As Object
Set mailman = CreateObject("ChilkatMail.ChilkatMailMan")
' Get the free unlock-code from http://www.chilkatsoft.com
mailman.UnlockComponent "unlock-code"
mailman.SmtpHost = "my.smtpserver.com"
Set email = New ChilkatEmail
email.AddTo "Bill Yahoo", "yahoo@chilkatsoft.com"
email.Subject = "Here is some HTML with an image."
email.Body = "This is an email from Chilkat Software."
email.From = "fausey@chilkatsoft.com"
' Add an image
contentID = email.AddRelatedContent("sample.gif")
' Set the email body, and reference the image
htmlBody = "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><br>"
htmlBody = htmlBody & "This is an example of embedding an image in HTML email."
htmlBody = htmlBody & "<BR><IMG SRC=" & Chr(34) & "cid:" & contentID & Chr(34)
htmlBody = htmlBody & "><br><br></BODY></HTML>"
email.SetHtmlBody htmlBody
mailman.SendEmail email
Set email = Nothing
Set mailman = Nothing
Sending a HTML email with an image and also with
a plain-text alternative for Email clients that cannot accept
HTML:
Just modify the code above by adding this line:
email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody "This is the plain-text body"
This line can be added anywhere after the email
is created, but before it is sent.
Sending a HTML email with an image, an MS-Word
file attachment, and also with a plain-text alternative:
Just modify the code above by adding this line:
email.AddFileAttachment "sampleWordDoc.doc"
This line can be added anywhere after the email
is created, but before it is sent.
If you created an email with related content, a
plain-text alternative, and an attached file, the MIME that would
be created is a "multipart/alternative" within a "multipart/mixed"
within a "multipart/related". ChilkatMail can send and
receive emails this complex. Microsoft Outlook can handle it.
But many email clients are not sophisticated enough to handle
such a beast, however properly formatted it happens to be. (The
point here is that even though ChilkatMail can handle something
very complex, many mail clients won't.)
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