Email C Reference Documentation

Email

Current Version: 10.0.0

Represents a complete Email object.

Create/Dispose

HCkEmail instance = CkEmail_Create();
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CkEmail_Dispose(instance);
HCkEmail CkEmail_Create(void);

Creates an instance of the HCkEmail object and returns a handle ("void *" pointer). The handle is passed in the 1st argument for the functions listed on this page.

void CkEmail_Dispose(HCkEmail handle);

Objects created by calling CkEmail_Create must be freed by calling this method. A memory leak occurs if a handle is not disposed by calling this function. Also, any handle returned by a Chilkat "C" function must also be freed by the application by calling the appropriate Dispose method, such as CkEmail_Dispose.

Properties

Body
void CkEmail_getBody(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_body(HCkEmail cHandle);

The body of the email. If the email has both HTML and plain-text bodies, this property returns the HTML body. The GetHtmlBody and GetPlainTextBody methods can be used to access a specific body. The HasHtmlBody and HasPlainTextBody methods can be used to determine the presence of a body.

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BounceAddress
void CkEmail_getBounceAddress(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putBounceAddress(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_bounceAddress(HCkEmail cHandle);

The "return-path" address of the email to be used when the email is sent. Bounces (i.e. delivery status notifications, or DSN's) will go to this address.

Note: This is not the content of the "return-path" header for emails that are downloaded from a POP3 or IMAP server. The BounceAddress is the email address to be used in the process of sending the email via SMTP. (See the "SMTP Protocol in a Nutshell" link below.) The BounceAddress is the email address passed in the "MAIL FROM" SMTP command which becomes the "return-path" header in the email when received.

Note: The Sender and BounceAddress properties are identical and perform the same function. Setting the Sender property also sets the BounceAddress property, and vice-versa. The reason for the duplication is that BounceAddress existed first, and developers typically searched for a "Sender" property without realizing that the BounceAddress property served this function.

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Charset
void CkEmail_getCharset(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putCharset(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_charset(HCkEmail cHandle);

Represents the main charset of the email, such as "utf-8", "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "us-ascii", etc. This property can be empty if there is no explicit charset, such as for emails with only us-ascii.

Setting this property causes Chilkat to use the new charset in HTML and plain-text bodies, where possible. This can include updating the HTML META tag in HTML bodies to agree with the charset specified in the email header and also the byte representation of the HTML body in the email.

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DebugLogFilePath
void CkEmail_getDebugLogFilePath(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putDebugLogFilePath(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_debugLogFilePath(HCkEmail cHandle);

If set to a file path, causes each Chilkat method or property call to automatically append it's LastErrorText to the specified log file. The information is appended such that if a hang or crash occurs, it is possible to see the context in which the problem occurred, as well as a history of all Chilkat calls up to the point of the problem. The VerboseLogging property can be set to provide more detailed information.

This property is typically used for debugging the rare cases where a Chilkat method call hangs or generates an exception that halts program execution (i.e. crashes). A hang or crash should generally never happen. The typical causes of a hang are:

  1. a timeout related property was set to 0 to explicitly indicate that an infinite timeout is desired,
  2. the hang is actually a hang within an event callback (i.e. it is a hang within the application code), or
  3. there is an internal problem (bug) in the Chilkat code that causes the hang.

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Decrypted
BOOL CkEmail_getDecrypted(HCkEmail cHandle);

TRUE if the email arrived encrypted and was successfully decrypted, otherwise FALSE. This property is only meaningful when the ReceivedEncrypted property is equal to TRUE.

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EmailDateStr
void CkEmail_getEmailDateStr(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putEmailDateStr(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_emailDateStr(HCkEmail cHandle);

The date/time from the "Date" header in the UTC/GMT timezone in RFC822 string form.

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EncryptedBy
void CkEmail_getEncryptedBy(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_encryptedBy(HCkEmail cHandle);

If the email was received encrypted, this contains the details of the certificate used for encryption.

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FileDistList
void CkEmail_getFileDistList(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putFileDistList(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_fileDistList(HCkEmail cHandle);

Set this property to send an email to a list of recipients stored in a plain text file. The file format is simple: one recipient per line, no comments allowed, blank lines are ignored.Setting this property is equivalent to adding a "CKX-FileDistList"header field to the email. Chilkat Mail treats header fields beginning with "CKX-"specially in that these fields are never transmitted with the email when sent. However, CKX fields are saved and restored when saving to XML or loading from XML (or MIME). When sending an email containing a "CKX-FileDistList"header field, Chilkat Mail will read the distribution list file and send the email to each recipient. Emails can be sent individually, or with BCC, 100 recipients at a time. (see the MailMan.SendIndividual property).

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From
void CkEmail_getFrom(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putFrom(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_from(HCkEmail cHandle);

The combined name and email address of the sender, such as "John Smith" . This is the content that will be placed in the From: header field. If the actual sender is to be different, then set the Sender property to a different email address.

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FromAddress
void CkEmail_getFromAddress(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putFromAddress(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_fromAddress(HCkEmail cHandle);

The email address of the sender.

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FromName
void CkEmail_getFromName(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putFromName(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_fromName(HCkEmail cHandle);

The name of the sender.

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Header
void CkEmail_getHeader(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_header(HCkEmail cHandle);

The complete MIME header of the email.

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Language
void CkEmail_getLanguage(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_language(HCkEmail cHandle);

A read-only property that identifies the primary language group for the email. Possible values are:

  • "latin1" (for English and all Western European languages)
  • "central" (for Central European languages such as Polish, Czech, Hungarian, etc.)
  • "russian" (for Cyrillic languages)
  • "greek"
  • "turkish"
  • "hebrew"
  • "arabic"
  • "thai"
  • "vietnamese"
  • "chinese"
  • "japanese"
  • "korean"
  • "devanagari"
  • "bengali"
  • "gurmukhi"
  • "gujarati"
  • "oriya"
  • "tamil"
  • "telugu"
  • "kannada"
  • "malayalam"
  • "sinhala"
  • "lao"
  • "tibetan"
  • "myanmar"
  • "georgian"
  • "unknown"
The language group determination is made soley on the subject and plain-text/HTML email bodies. Characters in the FROM, TO, CC, and other header fields are not considered.

The primary determining factor is the characters found in the Subject header field. For example, if an email contains Japanese in the Subject, but the body contains Russian characters, it will be considered "japanese".

The language is determined by where the Unicode chars fall in various blocks in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. For more information, see the book "Unicode Demystified" by Richard Gillam.

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LastErrorHtml
void CkEmail_getLastErrorHtml(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_lastErrorHtml(HCkEmail cHandle);

Provides information in HTML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastErrorText
void CkEmail_getLastErrorText(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_lastErrorText(HCkEmail cHandle);

Provides information in plain-text format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastErrorXml
void CkEmail_getLastErrorXml(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_lastErrorXml(HCkEmail cHandle);

Provides information in XML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastMethodSuccess
BOOL CkEmail_getLastMethodSuccess(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putLastMethodSuccess(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

Indicate whether the last method call succeeded or failed. A value of TRUE indicates success, a value of FALSE indicates failure. This property is automatically set for method calls. It is not modified by property accesses. The property is automatically set to indicate success for the following types of method calls:

  • Any method that returns a string.
  • Any method returning a Chilkat object, binary bytes, or a date/time.
  • Any method returning a standard boolean status value where success = TRUE and failure = FALSE.
  • Any method returning an integer where failure is defined by a return value less than zero.

Note: Methods that do not fit the above requirements will always set this property equal to TRUE. For example, a method that returns no value (such as a "void" in C++) will technically always succeed.

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LocalDateStr
void CkEmail_getLocalDateStr(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putLocalDateStr(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_localDateStr(HCkEmail cHandle);

The date/time found in the "Date" header field returned in the local timezone in RFC822 string form.

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Mailer
void CkEmail_getMailer(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putMailer(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_mailer(HCkEmail cHandle);

Identifies the email software that sent the email.

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NumAlternatives
int CkEmail_getNumAlternatives(HCkEmail cHandle);

The number of alternative bodies present in the email. An email that is not "multipart/alternative"will return 0 alternatives. An email that is "multipart/alternative" will return a number greater than or equal to 1.

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NumAttachedMessages
int CkEmail_getNumAttachedMessages(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the number of embedded emails. Some mail clients will embed an email that is to be forwarded into a new email as a "message/rfc822" subpart of the MIME message structure. This property tells how many emails have been embedded. The original email can be retrieved by calling GetAttachedMessage.

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NumAttachments
int CkEmail_getNumAttachments(HCkEmail cHandle);

The number of attachments contained in the email.

Note: If an email is downloaded from an IMAP server without attachments, then the number of attachments should be obtained by calling the IMAP object's GetMailNumAttach method. This property indicates the actual number of attachments already present within the email object.

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NumBcc
int CkEmail_getNumBcc(HCkEmail cHandle);

The number of blind carbon-copy email recipients.

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NumCC
int CkEmail_getNumCC(HCkEmail cHandle);

The number of carbon-copy email recipients.

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NumDaysOld
int CkEmail_getNumDaysOld(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the number of days old from the current system date/time. The email's date is obtained from the "Date" header field. If the Date header field is missing, or invalid, then -9999 is returned. A negative number may be returned if the Date header field contains a future date/time. (However, -9999 represents an error condition.)

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NumDigests
int CkEmail_getNumDigests(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.66

Returns the number of message/rfc822 parts contained within the multipart/digest enclosure. If no multipart/digest enclosure exists, then this property has the value of 0. The GetDigest method is called to get the Nth digest as an email object.

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NumHeaderFields
int CkEmail_getNumHeaderFields(HCkEmail cHandle);

The number of header fields. When accessing a header field by index, the 1st header field is at index 0, and the last is at NumHeaderFields-1. (Chilkat indexing is always 0-based.)

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NumRelatedItems
int CkEmail_getNumRelatedItems(HCkEmail cHandle);

The number of related items present in this email. Related items are typically image files (JPEGs or GIFs) or style sheets (CSS files) that are included with HTML formatted messages with internal "CID"hyperlinks.

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NumReplacePatterns
int CkEmail_getNumReplacePatterns(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the number of replacement patterns previously set by calling the SetReplacePattern method 1 or more times. If replacement patterns are set, the email bodies and header fields are modified by applying the search/replacement strings during the message sending process.

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NumReports
int CkEmail_getNumReports(HCkEmail cHandle);

(For multipart/report emails that have sub-parts with Content-Types such as message/feedback-report.) Any MIME sub-part within the email that has a Content-Type of "message/*", but is not a "message/rfc822", is considered to be a "report" and is included in this count. (A "message/rfc822" is considered an attached message and is handled by the NumAttachedMessages property and the GetAttachedMessage method.) Any MIME sub-part having a Content-Type equal to "text/rfc822-headers" is also considered to be a "report". The GetReport method may be called to get the body content of each "report" contained within a multipart/report email.

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NumTo
int CkEmail_getNumTo(HCkEmail cHandle);

The number of direct email recipients.

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OaepHash
void CkEmail_getOaepHash(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putOaepHash(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_oaepHash(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Selects the hash algorithm for use within OAEP padding when encrypting email using RSAES-OAEP. The valid choices are "sha1", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512",

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OaepMgfHash
void CkEmail_getOaepMgfHash(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putOaepMgfHash(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_oaepMgfHash(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.71

Selects the MGF hash algorithm for use within OAEP padding when encrypting email using RSAES-OAEP. The valid choices are "sha1", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512",

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OaepPadding
BOOL CkEmail_getOaepPadding(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putOaepPadding(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Selects the RSA encryption scheme when encrypting email. The default value is FALSE, which selects RSAES_PKCS1-V1_5. If set to TRUE, then RSAES_OAEP is used.

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OverwriteExisting
BOOL CkEmail_getOverwriteExisting(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putOverwriteExisting(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

When TRUE (the default) the methods to save email attachments and related items will overwrite files if they already exist. If FALSE, then the methods that save email attachments and related items will append a string of 4 characters to create a unique filename if a file already exists. The filename of the attachment (or related item) within the email object is updated and can be retrieved by the program to determine the actual file(s) created.

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Pkcs7CryptAlg
void CkEmail_getPkcs7CryptAlg(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putPkcs7CryptAlg(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_pkcs7CryptAlg(HCkEmail cHandle);

When an email is sent encrypted (using PKCS7 public-key encryption), this selects the underlying symmetric encryption algorithm. Possible values are: "aes", "des", "3des", and "rc2". The default value is "aes".

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Pkcs7KeyLength
int CkEmail_getPkcs7KeyLength(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putPkcs7KeyLength(HCkEmail cHandle, int newVal);

When the email is sent encrypted (using PKCS7 public-key encryption), this selects the key length of the underlying symmetric encryption algorithm. The possible values allowed depend on the Pkcs7CryptAlg property. For "aes", the key length may be 128, 192, or 256. For "3des" the key length must be 192. For "des" the key length must be 40. For "rc2" the key length can be 40, 56, 64, or 128.

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PreferredCharset
void CkEmail_getPreferredCharset(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putPreferredCharset(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_preferredCharset(HCkEmail cHandle);

Only applies when building an email with non-English characters where the charset is not explicitly set. The Chilkat email component will automatically choose a charset based on the languages found within an email (if the charset is not already specified within the MIME or explicitly specified by setting the Charset property). The default charset chosen for each language is:

Chinese: gb2312
Japanese: shift_JIS
Korean: ks_c_5601-1987
Thai: windows-874
All others: iso-8859-*

This allows for charsets such as iso-2022-jp to be chosen instead of the default. If the preferred charset does not apply to the situation, it is not used. For example, if the preferred charset is iso-2022-jp, but the email contains Greek characters, then the preferred charset is ignored.

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PrependHeaders
BOOL CkEmail_getPrependHeaders(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putPrependHeaders(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

If TRUE, then header fields added via the AddHeaderField or AddHeaderField2 methods are prepended to the top of the header as opposed to appended to the bottom. The default value is FALSE.

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ReceivedEncrypted
BOOL CkEmail_getReceivedEncrypted(HCkEmail cHandle);

TRUE if this email was originally received with encryption, otherwise FALSE.

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ReceivedSigned
BOOL CkEmail_getReceivedSigned(HCkEmail cHandle);

TRUE if this email was originally received with a digital signature, otherwise FALSE.

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ReplyTo
void CkEmail_getReplyTo(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putReplyTo(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_replyTo(HCkEmail cHandle);

Sets the "Reply-To" header field to the specified email address.

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ReturnReceipt
BOOL CkEmail_getReturnReceipt(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putReturnReceipt(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

Set to TRUE if you want the email to request a return-receipt when received by the recipient. The default value is FALSE.

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SendEncrypted
BOOL CkEmail_getSendEncrypted(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putSendEncrypted(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

Set to TRUE if this email should be sent encrypted.

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Sender
void CkEmail_getSender(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putSender(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_sender(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.41

The sender's address for this email message.

This is the address of the actual sender acting on behalf of the author listed in the From: field. It is the email address passed in the "MAIL FROM" SMTP command which becomes the "return-path" header in the email when received.

Note: The Sender and BounceAddress properties are identical and perform the same function. Setting the Sender property also sets the BounceAddress property, and vice-versa. The reason for the duplication is that BounceAddress existed first, and developers typically searched for a "Sender" property without realizing that the BounceAddress property served this function.

Important Note: This property does not contain the value of the "Sender" header field, if one exists, for a received email. It is a property that is used when sending email. To get the value of the "Sender" header field (which may not always exist), call the GetHeaderField method instead.

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SendSigned
BOOL CkEmail_getSendSigned(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putSendSigned(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

Set to TRUE if this email should be sent with a digital signature.

Note: Please be aware of the Apple Mail bug explained in the web page at the link below.

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SignaturesValid
BOOL CkEmail_getSignaturesValid(HCkEmail cHandle);

TRUE if the email was received with one or more digital signatures, and if all the signatures were validated indicating that the email was not altered. Otherwise this property is set to FALSE. (This property is only meaningful when the ReceivedSigned property is equal to TRUE.)

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SignedBy
void CkEmail_getSignedBy(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_signedBy(HCkEmail cHandle);

If the email was received digitally signed, this property contains the fields of the cert's SubjectDN.

For example: US, 60187, Illinois, Wheaton, 1719 E Forest Ave, "Chilkat Software, Inc.", "Chilkat Software, Inc."

It is like the DN (Distinguished Name), but without the "AttrName=" before each attribute.

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SigningAlg
void CkEmail_getSigningAlg(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putSigningAlg(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_signingAlg(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Selects the signature algorithm to be used when sending signed (PKCS7) email. The default value is "PKCS1-v1_5". This can be set to "RSASSA-PSS" (or simply "pss") to use the RSASSA-PSS signature scheme.

Note: This property only applies when signing with an RSA private key. It does not apply for ECC or DSA private keys.

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SigningHashAlg
void CkEmail_getSigningHashAlg(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putSigningHashAlg(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_signingHashAlg(HCkEmail cHandle);

Selects the underlying hash algorithm used when sending signed (PKCS7) email. Possible values are "sha1", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512", "md5", and "md2".

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Size
int CkEmail_getSize(HCkEmail cHandle);

The size in bytes of the email, including all parts and attachments.

Note: This property is only valid if the full email was downloaded. If only the header was downloaded, then this property will contain the size of just the header.

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Subject
void CkEmail_getSubject(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putSubject(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_subject(HCkEmail cHandle);

The email subject.

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Uidl
void CkEmail_getUidl(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_uidl(HCkEmail cHandle);

This is the unique ID assigned by the POP3 server. Emails can be retrieved or deleted from the POP3 server via the UIDL. The header field for this property is "X-UIDL".

Important: Emails downloaded via the IMAP protocol do not have UIDL's. UIDL's are specific to the POP3 protocol. IMAP servers use UID's (notice the spelling difference -- "UIDL" vs. "UID"). An email downloaded via the Chilkat IMAP component will contain a "ckx-imap-uid" header field that holds either an IMAP UID or sequence number. If the email was downloaded (from IMAP) using a UID,then ckx-imap-uid contains a UID. If the email was downloaded by sequence number, then it contains a sequence number (not unique and can change with a new session). The "ckx-imap-isUid" header, which can have the value "YES" or "NO", tells what ckx-imap-uid contains.

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UncommonOptions
void CkEmail_getUncommonOptions(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
void CkEmail_putUncommonOptions(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *newVal);
const char *CkEmail_uncommonOptions(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.79

This is a catch-all property to be used for uncommon needs. This property defaults to the empty string, and should typically remain empty.

As of v9.5.0.79, the only possible value is:

  • "NO_FORMAT_FLOWED" - Don't automatically add "format=flowed" to any Content-Type header.

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UnpackUseRelPaths
BOOL CkEmail_getUnpackUseRelPaths(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putUnpackUseRelPaths(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

Applies to the UnpackHtml method. If TRUE, then relative paths are used within the HTML for the links to the related files (images and style sheets) that were unpacked to the filesystem. Otherwise absolute paths are used. The default value is TRUE.

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Utf8
BOOL CkEmail_getUtf8(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putUtf8(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

When set to TRUE, all "const char *" arguments are interpreted as utf-8 strings. If set to FALSE (the default), then "const char *" arguments are interpreted as ANSI strings. Also, when set to TRUE, and Chilkat method returning a "const char *" is returning the utf-8 representation. If set to FALSE, all "const char *" return values are ANSI strings.

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VerboseLogging
BOOL CkEmail_getVerboseLogging(HCkEmail cHandle);
void CkEmail_putVerboseLogging(HCkEmail cHandle, BOOL newVal);

If set to TRUE, then the contents of LastErrorText (or LastErrorXml, or LastErrorHtml) may contain more verbose information. The default value is FALSE. Verbose logging should only be used for debugging. The potentially large quantity of logged information may adversely affect peformance.

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Version
void CkEmail_getVersion(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString retval);
const char *CkEmail_version(HCkEmail cHandle);

Version of the component/library, such as "9.5.0.94"

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Methods

AddAttachmentBd
BOOL CkEmail_AddAttachmentBd(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *filename, HCkBinData binData, const char *contentType);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.63

Adds an attachment using the contents of a BinData object. If contentType is empty, then the content-type will be inferred from the filename extension.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddAttachmentHeader
void CkEmail_AddAttachmentHeader(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *fieldValue);

Adds or replaces a MIME header field in one of the email attachments. If the header field does not exist, it is added. Otherwise it is replaced.

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AddBcc
BOOL CkEmail_AddBcc(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *friendlyName, const char *emailAddress);

Adds a recipient to the blind carbon-copy list. emailAddress is required, but friendlyName may be empty.

To add multiple BCC recipients, call this method once per recipient.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddCC
BOOL CkEmail_AddCC(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *friendlyName, const char *emailAddress);

Adds a recipient to the carbon-copy list. emailAddress is required, but friendlyName may be empty.

To add multiple CC recipients, call this method once per recipient.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddDataAttachment
BOOL CkEmail_AddDataAttachment(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fileName, HCkByteData content);

Adds an attachment directly from data in memory to the email.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddDataAttachment2
BOOL CkEmail_AddDataAttachment2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fileName, HCkByteData content, const char *contentType);

Adds an attachment to an email from in-memory data. Same as AddDataAttachment but allows the content-type to be specified.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddEncryptCert
BOOL CkEmail_AddEncryptCert(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkCert cert);

Allows for certificates to be explicitly specified for sending encrypted email to one or more recipients. Call this method once per certificate to be used. The ClearEncryptCerts method may be called to clear the list of explicitly-specified certificates.

Note: It is possible to send encrypted email without explicitly specifying the certificates. On Windows computers, the registry-based Current-User and Local-Machine certificate stores are automatically searched for certs matching each of the recipients (To, CC, and BCC recipients).

Note: The SetEncryptCert method is equivalent to calling ClearEncryptCerts followed by AddEncryptCert.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddFileAttachment
BOOL CkEmail_AddFileAttachment(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path, HCkString outStrContentType);
const char *CkEmail_addFileAttachment(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path);

Adds a file as an attachment to the email. Returns the MIME content-type of the attachment, which is inferred based on the filename extension.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddFileAttachment2
BOOL CkEmail_AddFileAttachment2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path, const char *contentType);

Same as AddFileAttachment, but the content type can be explicitly specified.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddHeaderField
void CkEmail_AddHeaderField(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName, const char *fieldValue);

Any standard or non-standard (custom) header field can be added to the email with this method. One interesting feature is that all header fields whose name begins with "CKX-" will not be included in the header when an email is sent. These fields will be included when saved to or loaded from XML. This makes it easy to include persistent meta-data with an email which your programs can use in any way it chooses.

Important: This method will replace an already-existing header field. To allow for adding duplicate header fields, call AddHeaderField2 (see below).

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AddHeaderField2
void CkEmail_AddHeaderField2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName, const char *fieldValue);

This method is the same as AddHeaderField, except that if the header field already exists, it is not replaced. A duplicate header will be added.

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AddHtmlAlternativeBody
BOOL CkEmail_AddHtmlAlternativeBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *body);

Sets the HTML body of the email. Use this method if there will be multiple versions of the body, but in different formats, such as HTML and plain text. Otherwise, set the body by calling the SetHtmlBody method.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddiCalendarAlternativeBody
BOOL CkEmail_AddiCalendarAlternativeBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *icalContent, const char *methodName);

Adds an iCalendar (text/calendar) alternative body to the email. The icalContent contains the content of the iCalendar data. A sample is shown here:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:uid1@example.com
DTSTAMP:19970714T170000Z
ORGANIZER;CN=John Doe:MAILTO:john.doe@example.com
DTSTART:19970714T170000Z
DTEND:19970715T035959Z
SUMMARY:Bastille Day Party
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
The methodName is the "method" attribute used in the Content-Type header field in the alternative body. For example, if set to "REQUEST", then the alternative body's header would look like this:
Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddMultipleBcc
BOOL CkEmail_AddMultipleBcc(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *commaSeparatedAddresses);

Adds multiple recipients to the blind carbon-copy list. The parameter is a string containing a comma separated list of full email addresses. Returns True if successful.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddMultipleCC
BOOL CkEmail_AddMultipleCC(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *commaSeparatedAddresses);

Adds multiple recipients to the carbon-copy list. The parameter is a string containing a comma separated list of full email addresses. Returns True if successful.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddMultipleTo
BOOL CkEmail_AddMultipleTo(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *commaSeparatedAddresses);

Adds multiple recipients to the "to" list. The parameter is a string containing a comma separated list of full email addresses. Returns True if successful.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddPfxSourceData
BOOL CkEmail_AddPfxSourceData(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData pfxBytes, const char *pfxPassword);

Adds a PFX to the object's internal list of sources to be searched for certificates and private keys when decrypting. Multiple PFX sources can be added by calling this method once for each. (On the Windows operating system, the registry-based certificate stores are also automatically searched, so it is commonly not required to explicitly add PFX sources.)

The pfxBytes contains the bytes of a PFX file (also known as PKCS12 or .p12).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddPfxSourceFile
BOOL CkEmail_AddPfxSourceFile(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *pfxFilePath, const char *pfxPassword);

Adds a PFX file to the object's internal list of sources to be searched for certificates and private keys when decrypting. Multiple PFX files can be added by calling this method once for each. (On the Windows operating system, the registry-based certificate stores are also automatically searched, so it is commonly not required to explicitly add PFX sources.)

The pfxFilePath contains the bytes of a PFX file (also known as PKCS12 or .p12).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddPlainTextAlternativeBody
BOOL CkEmail_AddPlainTextAlternativeBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *body);

Sets the plain-text body of the email. Use this method if there will be multiple versions of the body, but in different formats, such as HTML and plain text. Otherwise, simply set the Body property.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedBd
BOOL CkEmail_AddRelatedBd(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *filename, HCkBinData binData, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_addRelatedBd(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *filename, HCkBinData binData);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.65

Adds a related item using the contents of a BinData object. Returns the Content-ID for the newly added relted item.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedBd2
BOOL CkEmail_AddRelatedBd2(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkBinData binData, const char *fileNameInHtml);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.65

Adds a related item using the contents of a BinData object. The fileNameInHtml should be set to the filename/path/url used in the corresponding HTML IMG tag's "src" attribute.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedData
BOOL CkEmail_AddRelatedData(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fileName, HCkByteData inData, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_addRelatedData(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fileName, HCkByteData inData);

Adds the memory data as a related item to the email and returns the Content-ID. Emails formatted in HTML can include images with this call and internally reference the image through a "cid"hyperlink. (Chilkat Email.NET fully supports the MHTML standard.)

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedData2
void CkEmail_AddRelatedData2(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData inData, const char *fileNameInHtml);

Adds a related item to the email from in-memory byte data. Related items are things such as images and style sheets that are embedded within an HTML email. They are not considered attachments because their sole purpose is to participate in the display of the HTML. This method differs from AddRelatedData in that it does not use or return a Content-ID. The filename argument should be set to the filename used in the HTML img tag's src attribute (if it's an image), or the URL referenced in an HTML link tag for a stylesheet.

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AddRelatedData2P
void CkEmail_AddRelatedData2P(HCkEmail cHandle, const unsigned char *pBytes, unsigned long szBytes, const char *fileNameInHtml);

The same as AddRelatedData2, except the data is passed in as a "const unsigned char *" with the byte count in szBytes.

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AddRelatedDataP
BOOL CkEmail_AddRelatedDataP(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *nameInHtml, const unsigned char *pBytes, unsigned long szBytes, HCkString outStrContentId);
const char *CkEmail_addRelatedDataP(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *nameInHtml, const unsigned char *pBytes, unsigned long szBytes);

The same as AddRelatedData, except the data is passed in as a "const unsigned char *" with the byte count in szBytes. The Content-ID assigned to the related item is returned (in ARG4 for the upper-case alternative for this method).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedFile
BOOL CkEmail_AddRelatedFile(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path, HCkString outStrContentID);
const char *CkEmail_addRelatedFile(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path);

Adds the contents of a file to the email and returns the Content-ID. Emails formatted in HTML can include images with this call and internally reference the image through a "cid" hyperlink. (Chilkat Email.NET fully supports the MHTML standard.)

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedFile2
BOOL CkEmail_AddRelatedFile2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *filenameOnDisk, const char *filenameInHtml);

Adds a related item to the email from a file. Related items are things such as images and style sheets that are embedded within an HTML email. They are not considered attachments because their sole purpose is to participate in the display of the HTML. This method differs from AddRelatedFile in that it does not use or return a Content-ID. The filenameInHtml argument should be set to the filename used in the HTML img tag's src attribute (if it's an image), or the URL referenced in an HTML link tag for a stylesheet. The filenameOnDisk is the path in the local filesystem of the file to be added.

Note: Outlook.com will not properly display embedded HTMl images when the filenameInHtml includes a path part. Apparently, Outlook.com is only capable of correctly displaying images when the filenameInHtml is a only a filename. Other email clients, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, have no trouble when the filenameInHtml includes a path part.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedHeader
void CkEmail_AddRelatedHeader(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *fieldValue);

Adds or replaces a MIME header field in one of the email's related items. If the header field does not exist, it is added. Otherwise it is replaced.

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AddRelatedString
BOOL CkEmail_AddRelatedString(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *nameInHtml, const char *str, const char *charset, HCkString outCid);
const char *CkEmail_addRelatedString(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *nameInHtml, const char *str, const char *charset);

Adds a related item to the email. A related item is typically an image or style sheet referenced by an HTML tag within the HTML email body. The contents of the related item are passed str. nameInHtml specifies the filename that should be used within the HTML, and not an actual filename on the local filesystem. charset specifies the charset that should be used for the text content of the related item. Returns the content-ID generated for the added item.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddRelatedString2
void CkEmail_AddRelatedString2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fileNameInHtml, const char *content, const char *charset);

Adds a related item to the email from an in-memory string. Related items are things such as images and style sheets that are embedded within an HTML email. They are not considered attachments because their sole purpose is to participate in the display of the HTML. The filenameInHtml argument should be set to the filename used in the HTML img tag's src attribute (if it's an image), or the URL referenced in an HTML link tag for a stylesheet. The charset argument indicates that the content should first be converted to the specified charset prior to adding to the email. It should hava a value such as "iso-8859-1", "utf-8", "Shift_JIS", etc.

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AddStringAttachment
BOOL CkEmail_AddStringAttachment(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path, const char *content);

Adds an attachment directly from a string in memory to the email.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddStringAttachment2
BOOL CkEmail_AddStringAttachment2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path, const char *content, const char *charset);

Adds an attachment to an email. The path specifies the filename to be used for the attachment and is not an actual filename existing on the local filesystem. The content contains the text data for the attachment. The string will be converted to the charset specified in charset before being added to the email.

Note: Beginning in v9.5.0.48, the charset may be prepended with "bom-" or "no-bom-" to include or exclude the BOM (preamble) for charsets such as utf-16 or utf-8. For example: "no-bom-utf-8" or "bom-utf-8".

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AddTo
BOOL CkEmail_AddTo(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *friendlyName, const char *emailAddress);

Adds a recipient to the "to" list. emailAddress is required, but friendlyName may be empty. Emails that have no "To" recipients will be sent to <undisclosed-recipients>.

To add multiple recipients, call this method once per TO recipient.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AesDecrypt
BOOL CkEmail_AesDecrypt(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *password);

Decrypts and restores an email message that was previously encrypted using AesEncrypt. The password must match the password used for encryption.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AesEncrypt
BOOL CkEmail_AesEncrypt(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *password);

Encrypts the email body, all alternative bodies, all message sub-parts and attachments using 128-bit AES CBC encryption. Decrypting is achieved by calling AesDecrypt with the same password. The AesEncrypt/Decrypt methods use symmetric password-based AES encryption and greatly simplify sending and receiving encrypted emails because certificates and private keys are not used. However, the sending and receiving applications must both use Chilkat, and the password must be pre-known on both ends.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AppendToBody
void CkEmail_AppendToBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *str);

Appends a string to the plain-text body.

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ApplyFixups
BOOL CkEmail_ApplyFixups(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fixups);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.71

Sometimes emails created by other software or systems are not formatted according to typical conventions. This method provides a means to automatically fix certain problems.

The fixups set to a comma-separated list of keywords that identify the fixups to be applied. At the moment, there is only one fixup defined ("FixRelated") as described here:

  • FixRelated: Fixes the email so that HTML related items (images for example) are properly located in the email MIME structure. This prevents them from being seen as attachments.
  • Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AspUnpack
BOOL CkEmail_AspUnpack(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *prefix, const char *saveDir, const char *urlPath, BOOL cleanFiles);

Please see the examples at the following pages for detailed information:

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AspUnpack2
BOOL CkEmail_AspUnpack2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *prefix, const char *saveDir, const char *urlPath, BOOL cleanFiles, HCkByteData outHtml);

Please see the examples at the following pages for detailed information:

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AttachEmail
BOOL CkEmail_AttachEmail(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkEmail email);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.87

Attaches copy of the email to this email object. The attached email will be encapsulated in an message/rfc822 sub-part.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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AttachMessage
BOOL CkEmail_AttachMessage(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData mimeBytes);

Attaches a MIME message to the email object. The attached MIME will be encapsulated in an message/rfc822 sub-part.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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BEncodeBytes
BOOL CkEmail_BEncodeBytes(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData inData, const char *charset, HCkString outEncodedStr);
const char *CkEmail_bEncodeBytes(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData inData, const char *charset);

Takes a byte array of multibyte (non-Unicode) data and returns a Unicode B-Encoded string.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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BEncodeString
BOOL CkEmail_BEncodeString(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *str, const char *charset, HCkString outEncodedStr);
const char *CkEmail_bEncodeString(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *str, const char *charset);

Takes a Unicode string, converts it to the charset specified in the 2nd parameter, B-Encodes the converted multibyte data, and returns the encoded Unicode string.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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Clear
void CkEmail_Clear(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.76

Clears the email object of all information to the state as if the object was just created, which will have default headers such as Mime-Version, Date, Message-ID, Content-Type, Content-Transfer-Encoding, and X-Priority.

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ClearBcc
void CkEmail_ClearBcc(HCkEmail cHandle);

Clears the list of blind carbon-copy recipients.

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ClearCC
void CkEmail_ClearCC(HCkEmail cHandle);

Clears the list of carbon-copy recipients.

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ClearEncryptCerts
void CkEmail_ClearEncryptCerts(HCkEmail cHandle);

Clears the internal list of explicitly specified certificates to be used for this encrypted email.

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ClearTo
void CkEmail_ClearTo(HCkEmail cHandle);

Clears the list of "to" recipients.

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Clone
HCkEmail CkEmail_Clone(HCkEmail cHandle);

Creates and returns an identical copy of the Email object.

Returns NULL on failure

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ComputeGlobalKey2
BOOL CkEmail_ComputeGlobalKey2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *encoding, BOOL bFold, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_computeGlobalKey2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *encoding, BOOL bFold);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.59

Computes a global unique key for the email. The key is created by a digest-MD5 hash of the concatenation of the following:

messageID + CRLF + subject + CRLF + from + CRLF + date + CRLF + recipientAddrs

messageID contains the contents of the Message-ID header field.
subject contains the contents of the Subject header field, trimmed of whitespace from both ends, 
    where TAB chars are converted to SPACE chars, and internal whitespace is trimmed so that 
   no more than one SPACE char in a row exists.
from contains the lowercase FROM header email address.
date contains the contents of the DATE header field.
toAddrs contains lowercase TO and CC recipient email addresses, comma separated, with duplicates removed, and sorted 
    in ascending order.  The BCC addresses are NOT included.

(After calling this method, the LastErrorText property can be examined to see the string that was hashed.)
The 16-byte MD5 hash is returned as an encoded string. The encoding determines the encoding: base64, hex, url, etc. If bFold is TRUE, then the 16-byte MD5 hash is folded to 8 bytes with an XOR to produce a shorter key.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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ConvertInlineImages
BOOL CkEmail_ConvertInlineImages(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.78

Converts images embedded inline within HTML to multipart/related MIME parts referenced from the HTML by CID.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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CreateDsn
HCkEmail CkEmail_CreateDsn(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *humanReadableMessage, const char *xmlStatusFields, BOOL bHeaderOnly);

Creates a new DSN (Delivery Status Notification) email having the format as specified in RFC 3464. See the example (below) for more detailed information.

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CreateForward
HCkEmail CkEmail_CreateForward(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns a copy of the Email object with the body and header fields changed so that the newly created email can be forwarded. After calling CreateForward, simply add new recipients to the created email, and call MailMan.SendEmail.

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CreateMdn
HCkEmail CkEmail_CreateMdn(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *humanReadableMessage, const char *xmlStatusFields, BOOL bHeaderOnly);

Creates a new MDN (Message Disposition Notification) email having the format as specified in RFC 3798. See the example (below) for more detailed information.

Returns NULL on failure

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CreateReply
HCkEmail CkEmail_CreateReply(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns a copy of the Email object with the body and header fields changed so that the newly created email can be sent as a reply. After calling CreateReply, simply prepend additional information to the body, and call MailMan.SendEmail.

Note: Attachments are not included in the returned reply email. However, attached messages are included. If an application does not wish to include the attached messages in a reply email, they can be removed by calling RemoveAttachedMessages on the reply email object.

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CreateTempMht
BOOL CkEmail_CreateTempMht(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *inFilename, HCkString outPath);
const char *CkEmail_createTempMht(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *inFilename);

Saves the email to a temporary MHT file so that a WebBrowser control can navigate to it and display it. If fileName is empty, a temporary filename is generated and returned. If fileName is non-empty, then it will be created or overwritten, and the input filename is simply returned.The MHT file that is created will not contain any of the email's attachments, if any existed. Also, if the email was plain-text, the MHT file will be saved such that the plain-text is converted to HTML using pre-formatted text ("pre" HTML tags) allowing it to be displayed correctly in a WebBrowser.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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DropAttachments
void CkEmail_DropAttachments(HCkEmail cHandle);

Removes all attachments from the email.

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DropRelatedItem
void CkEmail_DropRelatedItem(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

A related item is typically an embedded image referenced from the HTML in the email via a "CID" hyperlink. This method removes the Nth embedded image from the email. Note: If the HTML tries to reference the removed image, it will be displayed as a broken image link.

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DropRelatedItems
void CkEmail_DropRelatedItems(HCkEmail cHandle);

A related item is typically an embedded image referenced from the HTML in the email via a "CID" hyperlink. This method removes all the embedded images from the email.

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DropSingleAttachment
BOOL CkEmail_DropSingleAttachment(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Drops a single attachment from the email. Returns True if successful.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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FindIssuer
HCkCert CkEmail_FindIssuer(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkCert cert);

Digitally signed and/or encrypted emails are automatically "unwrapped" when received from a POP3 or IMAP server, or when loaded from any source such as a MIME string, in-memory byte data, or a .eml file. The results of the signature verification / decryption are stored in the properties such as ReceivedSigned, ReceivedEncrypted, SignaturesValid, etc. The signing certificate can be obtained via the GetSigningCert function. If the signature contained more certificates in the chain of authentication, this method provides a means to access them.

During signature verification, the email object collects the certs found in the signature and holds onto them internally. To get the issuing certificate of the signing certificate, call this method passing the cert returned by GetSigningCert. If the issuing cert is available, it is returned. Otherwise NULL is returned. If the cert passed in is the root (i.e. a self-signed certificate), then the cert object returned is a copy of the cert passed in.

To traverse the chain to the root, one would write a loop that on first iteration passes the cert returned by GetSignedByCert (not GetSignerCert), and then on each subsequent iteration passes the cert from the previous iteration. The loop would exit when a cert is returned that has the same SubjectDN and SerialNumber as what was passed in (or when FindIssuer returns NULL).

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GenerateFilename
BOOL CkEmail_GenerateFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString outStrFilename);
const char *CkEmail_generateFilename(HCkEmail cHandle);

Generates a unique filename for this email. The filename will be different each time the method is called.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAlternativeBody
BOOL CkEmail_GetAlternativeBody(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrBody);
const char *CkEmail_getAlternativeBody(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Nth alternative body. The NumAlternatives property tells the number of alternative bodies present. Use the GetHtmlBody and GetPlainTextBody methods to easily get the HTML or plain text alternative bodies.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAlternativeBodyBd
BOOL CkEmail_GetAlternativeBodyBd(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkBinData binData);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Returns contents of the Nth alternative body to binData. The 1st alternative body is at index 0. This method should only be called when the NumAlternatives property has a value greater than 0.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAlternativeBodyByContentType
BOOL CkEmail_GetAlternativeBodyByContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *contentType, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getAlternativeBodyByContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *contentType);

Returns the alternative body by content-type, such as "text/plain", "text/html", "text/xml", etc.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAlternativeContentType
BOOL CkEmail_GetAlternativeContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrContentType);
const char *CkEmail_getAlternativeContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the content type of the Nth alternative body. The NumAlternatives property tells the number of alternative bodies present.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAltHeaderField
BOOL CkEmail_GetAltHeaderField(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getAltHeaderField(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName);

Returns the value of a header field within the Nth alternative body's MIME sub-part.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachedMessage
HCkEmail CkEmail_GetAttachedMessage(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns an embedded "message/rfc822" subpart as an email object. (Emails are embedded as "message/rfc822" subparts by some mail clients when forwarding an email.) This method allows the original email to be accessed.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetAttachedMessageAttr
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachedMessageAttr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *attrName, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachedMessageAttr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *attrName);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.41

Returns a header field attribute value for the Nth attached (embedded) email. For example, to get the value of the "name" attribute in the Content-Type header for the 1st attached message:

Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="md75000024149.eml"
then the method arguments should contain the values 0, "Content-Type", "name".

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachedMessageFilename
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachedMessageFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachedMessageFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the filename of the Nth attached (embedded) email. The filename is the "filename" attribute of the content-disposition header field found within the Nth message/rfc822 sub-part of the calling email object.

Important: The attached message filename is only present if the Content-Disposition header exists AND contains a "filename" attribute. If questions arise, one could open the email in a text editor to examine the MIME sub-header for the attached message (where the Content-Type = "message/rfc822"). For example, here is a sub-header that has a filename:

Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="GetAttachedMessageAttr.eml"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="GetAttachedMessageAttr.eml"
Here is an attached message sub-header that does NOT have a filename:
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentAttr
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentAttr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *attrName, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachmentAttr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *attrName);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.41

Returns a header field attribute value from the header field of the Nth attachment.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentBd
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentBd(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkBinData binData);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Copies an attachment's binary data into binData. The first attachment is at index 0.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentContentID
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentContentID(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrContentID);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachmentContentID(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the ContentID header field for the Nth attachment. The first attachment is at index 0.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentContentType
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrContentType);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachmentContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Content-Type header field for the Nth attachment. Indexing of attachments begins at 0.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentData
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentData(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkByteData outData);

Retrieves an attachment's binary data for in-memory access.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentFilename
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrFilename);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachmentFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Retrieves an attachment's filename.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentHeader
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentHeader(HCkEmail cHandle, int attachIndex, const char *fieldName, HCkString outFieldValue);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachmentHeader(HCkEmail cHandle, int attachIndex, const char *fieldName);

Returns the value of a header field (by name) of an attachment.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentSize
int CkEmail_GetAttachmentSize(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the size (in bytes) of the Nth attachment. The 1st attachment is at index 0. Returns -1 if there is no attachment at the specified index.

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GetAttachmentString
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentString(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachmentString(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset);

Retrieves an attachment's data as a String. All CRLF sequences will be translated to single newline characters. The charset indicates how to interpret the bytes of the attachment. For example, if the attachment is a text file using the utf-8 byte representation for characters, pass "utf-8".

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetAttachmentStringCrLf
BOOL CkEmail_GetAttachmentStringCrLf(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset, HCkString outStrData);
const char *CkEmail_getAttachmentStringCrLf(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset);

Retrieves an attachment's data as a String. All end-of-lines will be translated to CRLF sequences.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetBcc
BOOL CkEmail_GetBcc(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getBcc(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns a blind carbon-copy recipient's full email address.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetBccAddr
BOOL CkEmail_GetBccAddr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getBccAddr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Nth BCC address (only the address part, not the friendly-name part).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetBccName
BOOL CkEmail_GetBccName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getBccName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Nth BCC name (only the friendly-name part, not the address part).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetCC
BOOL CkEmail_GetCC(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getCC(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns a carbon-copy recipient's full email address.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetCcAddr
BOOL CkEmail_GetCcAddr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getCcAddr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Nth CC address (only the address part, not the friendly-name part).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetCcName
BOOL CkEmail_GetCcName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getCcName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Nth CC name (only the friendly-name part, not the address part).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetDeliveryStatusInfo
BOOL CkEmail_GetDeliveryStatusInfo(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName, HCkString outFieldValue);
const char *CkEmail_getDeliveryStatusInfo(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName);

If the email is a multipart/report, then it is a delivery status notification. This method can be used to get individual pieces of information from the message/delivery-status part of the email. This method should only be called if the IsMultipartReport method returns TRUE.

The fieldName should be set a string such as "Final-Recipient", "Status", "Action", "Reporting-MTA", etc.

Reporting-MTA: dns; XYZ.abc.nl

Final-recipient: RFC822; someEmailAddr@doesnotexist123.nl
Action: failed
Status: 5.4.4
X-Supplementary-Info: < #5.4.4 smtp;554 5.4.4
 SMTPSEND.DNS.NonExistentDomain; nonexistent domain>

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetDigest
HCkEmail CkEmail_GetDigest(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.66

Returns an digest contained within a multipart/digest as an email object. The 1st digest is at index 0. Use the NumDigests property to get the number of digests available.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.66 or greater.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetDsnFinalRecipients
HCkStringArray CkEmail_GetDsnFinalRecipients(HCkEmail cHandle);

If the email is a multipart/report, then it is a delivery status notification. This method can be used to get Final-Recipient values from the message/delivery-status part of the email. This method should only be called if the IsMultipartReport method returns TRUE.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetDt
HCkDateTime CkEmail_GetDt(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the date/time found in the "Date" header field as a date/time object.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetEncryptCert
HCkCert CkEmail_GetEncryptCert(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the certificate that was previously set by SetEncryptCert.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetEncryptedByCert
HCkCert CkEmail_GetEncryptedByCert(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the certificate associated with a received encrypted email.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetFileContent
BOOL CkEmail_GetFileContent(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path, HCkByteData outData);

Reads a file and returns the contents as a String. This is here purely for convenience.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetHeaderField
BOOL CkEmail_GetHeaderField(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName, HCkString outStrFieldData);
const char *CkEmail_getHeaderField(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName);

Returns the value of a header field.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetHeaderFieldName
BOOL CkEmail_GetHeaderFieldName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrFieldName);
const char *CkEmail_getHeaderFieldName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Return the name of the Nth header field. The NumHeaderFields() method can be used to get the number of header fields. The GetHeaderField() method can be used to get the value of the field given the field name.

The 1st header field is at index 0. (All Chilkat indexing is 0-based.)

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetHeaderFieldValue
BOOL CkEmail_GetHeaderFieldValue(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrFieldValue);
const char *CkEmail_getHeaderFieldValue(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the value of the Nth header field. (Indexing begins at 0) The number of header fields can be obtained from the NumHeaderFields property.

The 1st header field is at index 0, the last header field is at index NumHeaderFields-1. (All Chilkat indexing is 0-based.)

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetHtmlBody
BOOL CkEmail_GetHtmlBody(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString outStrBody);
const char *CkEmail_getHtmlBody(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the body having the "text/html" content type.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetImapUid
unsigned long CkEmail_GetImapUid(HCkEmail cHandle);

When email headers are downloaded from an IMAP server (using Chilkat IMAP), a "ckx-imap-uid" header field is added. The content of this header is the UID or sequence number of the email on the IMAP server. In addition, a "ckx-imap-isUid" header field is added, and this will have the value YES or NO. If the value is YES, then ckx-imap-uid contains a UID, if the value is NO, then ckx-imap-uid contains the sequence number. This method returns the UID if ckx-imap-uid exists and contains a UID, otherwise it returns 0xFFFFFFFF.

An application that wishes to download the full email would use this UID and then call the Chilkat IMAP object's FetchSingle or FetchSingleAsMime methods.

Note:If an email was downloaded from the IMAP server in a way such that the UID is not received, then there will be no "ckx-imap-uid" header field and this method would return 0xFFFFFFFF. For example, if emails are downloaded by sequence numbers via the Imap.FetchSequence method, then UIDs are not used and therefore the email object will not contain this information.

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GetLinkedDomains
HCkStringArray CkEmail_GetLinkedDomains(HCkEmail cHandle);

Parses an HTML email and returns the set of domain names that occur in hyperlinks within the HTML body.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetMbHeaderField
BOOL CkEmail_GetMbHeaderField(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName, const char *charset, HCkByteData outBytes);

Returns a header field's data in a byte array. If the field was Q or B encoded, this is automatically decoded, and the raw bytes of the field are returned. Call GetHeaderField to retrieve the header field as a Unicode string.

The 1st header field is at index 0. (All Chilkat indexing is 0-based.)

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetMbHtmlBody
BOOL CkEmail_GetMbHtmlBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *charset, HCkByteData outData);

Returns the HTML body converted to a specified charset. If no HTML body exists, the returned byte array is empty. The returned data will be such that not only is the character data converted (if necessary) to the convertToCharset, but the HTML is edited to add or modify the META tag that specifies the charset within the HTML.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetMbPlainTextBody
BOOL CkEmail_GetMbPlainTextBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *charset, HCkByteData outData);

Returns the plain-text body converted to a specified charset. The return value is a byte array containing multibyte character data.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetMime
BOOL CkEmail_GetMime(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString outStrMime);
const char *CkEmail_getMime(HCkEmail cHandle);

Return the email as MIME text containing the email header, body (or bodies), related items (if any), and all attachments

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetMimeBd
BOOL CkEmail_GetMimeBd(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkBinData bindat);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.62

Return the email as binary MIME containing the email header, body (or bodies), related items (if any), and all attachments. The MIME is appended to the existing contents (if any) of bindat.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetMimeBinary
BOOL CkEmail_GetMimeBinary(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData outBytes);

Returns the full MIME of an email.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetMimeSb
BOOL CkEmail_GetMimeSb(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkStringBuilder sb);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.62

Return the email as MIME text containing the email header, body (or bodies), related items (if any), and all attachments. The MIME is appended to the existing contents (if any) of sb.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetNthBinaryPartOfType
BOOL CkEmail_GetNthBinaryPartOfType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *contentType, BOOL inlineOnly, BOOL excludeAttachments, HCkByteData outBytes);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.44

Returns the binary bytes of the Nth MIME sub-part having a specified content type (such as "application/pdf". Indexing begins at 0. Call GetNumPartsOfType to find out how many MIME sub-parts exist for any given content type. If inlineOnly is TRUE, then only MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "inline" are included. If excludeAttachments is TRUE, then MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "attachment" are excluded.

Note: If the email was downloaded as header-only, it will not contain all the parts of the full email. Also, if downloaded from IMAP excluding attachments, those parts that are the attachments will (of course) be missing.

Note: Beginning in v9.5.0.95, the contentType can be wildcarded. For example, it is possible to specify "text/*", or simply "*" to match any Content-Type.

Note: Only non-multipart MIME parts are matched.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetNthBinaryPartOfTypeBd
BOOL CkEmail_GetNthBinaryPartOfTypeBd(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *contentType, BOOL inlineOnly, BOOL excludeAttachments, HCkBinData bd);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.95

Loads bd with the binary bytes of the Nth MIME sub-part matching the contentType, which can be an exact Content-Type such as "application/pdf", or a wildcarded Content-Type such as "application/*", or "*/*". Indexing begins at 0. Call GetNumPartsOfType to find out how many MIME sub-parts exist for any given content type. If inlineOnly is TRUE, then only MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "inline" are included. If excludeAttachments is TRUE, then MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "attachment" are excluded.

Note: If the email was downloaded as header-only, it will not contain all the parts of the full email. Also, if downloaded from IMAP excluding attachments, those parts that are the attachments will (of course) be missing.

Note: Beginning in v9.5.0.95, the contentType can be wildcarded. For example, it is possible to specify "text/*", or simply "*" to match any Content-Type.

Note: Only non-multipart MIME parts are matched.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetNthContentType
BOOL CkEmail_GetNthContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *contentType, BOOL inlineOnly, BOOL excludeAttachments, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getNthContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *contentType, BOOL inlineOnly, BOOL excludeAttachments);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.95

Returns the Content-Type of the Nth MIME sub-part matching the specified contentType. The contentType can be a Content-Type such as "text/plain", or a wildcarded Content-Type such as "text/*", or even just "*" to match all Content-Types. If inlineOnly is TRUE, then only MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "inline" are included. If excludeAttachments is TRUE, then MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "attachment" are excluded.

Note: Only non-multipart content-types are matched.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetNthTextPartOfType
BOOL CkEmail_GetNthTextPartOfType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *contentType, BOOL inlineOnly, BOOL excludeAttachments, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getNthTextPartOfType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *contentType, BOOL inlineOnly, BOOL excludeAttachments);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.44

Returns the text of the Nth MIME sub-part having a specified content type (such as "text/plain". Indexing begins at 0. Call GetNumPartsOfType to find out how many MIME sub-parts exist for any given content type. If inlineOnly is TRUE, then only MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "inline" are included. If excludeAttachments is TRUE, then MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "attachment" are excluded.

Note: If the email was downloaded as header-only, it will not contain all the parts of the full email. Also, if downloaded from IMAP excluding attachments, those parts that are the attachments will (of course) be missing.

Note: Beginning in v9.5.0.95, the contentType can be wildcarded. For example, it is possible to specify "text/*", or simply "*" to match any Content-Type.

Note: Only non-multipart MIME parts are matched.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetNumPartsOfType
int CkEmail_GetNumPartsOfType(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *contentType, BOOL inlineOnly, BOOL excludeAttachments);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.44

Returns the number of MIME sub-parts within the email having a specified content type (such as "text/plain"). If inlineOnly is TRUE, then only MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "inline" are included. If excludeAttachments is TRUE, then MIME sub-parts having a content-disposition of "attachment" are excluded.

Note: If the email was downloaded as header-only, it will not contain all the parts of the full email. Also, if downloaded from IMAP excluding attachments, those parts that are the attachments will (of course) be missing.

Note: Beginning in v9.5.0.95, the inlineOnly can be wildcarded. For example, it is possible to specify "text/*", or simply "*" to match any Content-Type.

Note: Only non-multipart MIME parts are matched (i.e. leaf-node MIME parts that contain a text or binary body).

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GetPlainTextBody
BOOL CkEmail_GetPlainTextBody(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString outStrBody);
const char *CkEmail_getPlainTextBody(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns the email body having the "text/plain" content type.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedAttr
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedAttr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *attrName, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedAttr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, const char *attrName);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.41

Returns a header field attribute value from the header field of the Nth related item.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedContentID
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedContentID(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrContentID);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedContentID(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the content ID of a related item contained with the email. Related items are typically images and style-sheets embedded within HTML emails.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedContentLocation
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedContentLocation(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedContentLocation(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Content-Location of a related item contained with the email. Related items are typically images and style-sheets embedded within HTML emails.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedContentType
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrContentType);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedContentType(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the content-type of the Nth related content item in an email message.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedData
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedData(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkByteData outBuffer);

Returns the content of a related item contained with the email. Related items are typically images and style-sheets embedded within HTML emails.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedFilename
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrFilename);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the filename of a related item contained with the email. Related items are typically images and style-sheets embedded within HTML emails.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedHeader
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedHeader(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedHeader(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *fieldName);
Introduced in version 10.0.0

Returns the value of a header field (by name) of a related item.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedString
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedString(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset, HCkString outStrData);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedString(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset);

Returns the text with CR line-endings of a related item contained with the email. Related items are typically images and style-sheets embedded within HTML emails.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetRelatedStringCrLf
BOOL CkEmail_GetRelatedStringCrLf(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getRelatedStringCrLf(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset);

Returns the text with CRLF line-endings of a related item contained with the email. Related items are typically images and style-sheets embedded within HTML emails.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetReplacePattern
BOOL CkEmail_GetReplacePattern(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStrPattern);
const char *CkEmail_getReplacePattern(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns a replacement pattern previously defined for mail-merge operations.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetReplaceString
BOOL CkEmail_GetReplaceString(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getReplaceString(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns a replacement string for a previously defined pattern/replacement string pair. (This is a mail-merge feature.)

Note: This method was found to not be working correctly and is fixed in Chilkat v9.5.0.91.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetReplaceString2
BOOL CkEmail_GetReplaceString2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *pattern, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getReplaceString2(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *pattern);

Returns a replacement string for a previously defined pattern/replacement string pair. (This is a mail-merge feature.)

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetReport
BOOL CkEmail_GetReport(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getReport(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

(See the NumReports property.) Returns the body content of the Nth report within a multipart/report email.

Multipart/report is a message type that contains data formatted for a mail server to read. It is split between a text/plain (or some other content/type easily readable) and a message/delivery-status, which contains the data formatted for the mail server to read.

It is defined in RFC 3462

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetSignedByCert
HCkCert CkEmail_GetSignedByCert(HCkEmail cHandle);

Return the certificate used to digitally sign this email.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetSignedByCertChain
HCkCertChain CkEmail_GetSignedByCertChain(HCkEmail cHandle);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.40

Return the full certificate chain of the certificate used to digitally sign this email.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetSigningCert
HCkCert CkEmail_GetSigningCert(HCkEmail cHandle);

Return the certificate that will be used to digitally sign this email. This is the cerficate that was previously set by calling the SetSigningCert method.

Returns NULL on failure

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GetTo
BOOL CkEmail_GetTo(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getTo(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns a "to" recipient's full email address.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetToAddr
BOOL CkEmail_GetToAddr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getToAddr(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Nth To address (only the address part, not the friendly-name part).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetToName
BOOL CkEmail_GetToName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, HCkString outStr);
const char *CkEmail_getToName(HCkEmail cHandle, int index);

Returns the Nth To name (only the friendly-name part, not the address part).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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GetXml
BOOL CkEmail_GetXml(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkString outStrXml);
const char *CkEmail_getXml(HCkEmail cHandle);

Convert the email object to an XML document in memory

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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HasHeaderMatching
BOOL CkEmail_HasHeaderMatching(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName, const char *valuePattern, BOOL caseSensitive);

Returns TRUE if the email has a header field with the specified fieldName with a value matching valuePattern. Case sensitivity is controlled by caseSensitive. The valuePattern may include 0 or more asterisk (wildcard) characters which match 0 or more of any character.

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HasHtmlBody
BOOL CkEmail_HasHtmlBody(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns true if the email has an HTML body.

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HasPlainTextBody
BOOL CkEmail_HasPlainTextBody(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns true if the email has a plain-text body.

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IsMultipartReport
BOOL CkEmail_IsMultipartReport(HCkEmail cHandle);

Returns true if the email is a multipart/report email.

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LoadEml
BOOL CkEmail_LoadEml(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *mimePath);

Loads a complete email from a .EML file. (EML files are simply RFC822 MIME text files.)

Note: This replaces the entire contents of the email object, including the To/CC recipients.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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LoadTaskResult
BOOL CkEmail_LoadTaskResult(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkTask task);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.52

Loads the email object from a completed asynchronous task.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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LoadXml
BOOL CkEmail_LoadXml(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *xmlPath);

Loads an email with the contents of an XML email file.

Note: This replaces the entire contents of the email object, including the To/CC recipients.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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LoadXmlString
BOOL CkEmail_LoadXmlString(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *xmlStr);

Loads an email from an XML string (previously obtained by calling the GetXml method). The contents of the calling email object are erased and replaced with the email contained within the XML string.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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QEncodeBytes
BOOL CkEmail_QEncodeBytes(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData inData, const char *charset, HCkString outEncodedStr);
const char *CkEmail_qEncodeBytes(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData inData, const char *charset);

Takes a byte array of multibyte (non-Unicode) data and returns a Unicode Q-Encoded string.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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QEncodeString
BOOL CkEmail_QEncodeString(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *str, const char *charset, HCkString outEncodedStr);
const char *CkEmail_qEncodeString(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *str, const char *charset);

Takes a Unicode string, converts it to the charset specified in the 2nd parameter, Q-Encodes the converted multibyte data, and returns the encoded Unicode string.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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RemoveAttachedMessage
void CkEmail_RemoveAttachedMessage(HCkEmail cHandle, int idx);

Removes the Nth message/rfc822 sub-part of the email. Indexing begins at 0.

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RemoveAttachedMessages
void CkEmail_RemoveAttachedMessages(HCkEmail cHandle);

Removes all message/rfc822 sub-parts of the email object.

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RemoveAttachmentPaths
void CkEmail_RemoveAttachmentPaths(HCkEmail cHandle);

Removes path information from all attachment filenames.

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RemoveHeaderField
void CkEmail_RemoveHeaderField(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *fieldName);

Removes by name all occurrences of a header field.

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RemoveHtmlAlternative
void CkEmail_RemoveHtmlAlternative(HCkEmail cHandle);

Removes the HTML body from the email (if an HTML body exists).

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RemovePlainTextAlternative
void CkEmail_RemovePlainTextAlternative(HCkEmail cHandle);

Removes the plain-text body from the email (if a plain-text body exists).

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SaveAllAttachments
BOOL CkEmail_SaveAllAttachments(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *dirPath);

Save all the attachments of an email to files in a directory specified by dirPath. The OverwriteExisting property controls whether existing files are allowed to be overwritten.

Note: Email attachment filenames can be renamed or modified prior to saving. The number of attachments is available in the NumAttachments property. An application can loop over the attachments to get the filename for each by calling GetAttachmentFilename(index). Each attachment's filename can be set by calling SetAttachmentFilename(index, newFilename).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SaveAttachedFile
BOOL CkEmail_SaveAttachedFile(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *dirPath);

Saves the Nth email attachment to the directory specified by dirPath. The 1st attachment is at index 0. The OverwriteExisting property controls whether existing files are allowed to be overwritten.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SaveEml
BOOL CkEmail_SaveEml(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *emlFilePath);

Convert this email object to EML and save it to a file.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SaveRelatedItem
BOOL CkEmail_SaveRelatedItem(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *dirPath);

Saves the Nth related item to the directory specified by dirPath. (The 1st related item is at index 0) Related content items are typically image or style-sheets embedded within an HTML email. The OverwriteExisting property controls whether existing files are allowed to be overwritten.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SaveXml
BOOL CkEmail_SaveXml(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *path);

Convert this email object to XML and save it to a file.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetAttachmentCharset
BOOL CkEmail_SetAttachmentCharset(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *charset);

Sets the charset attribute of the content-type header field for a specified attachment. This can be used if the attachment is a text file that contains text in a non us-ascii charset such as Shift_JIS, iso-8859-2, big5, iso-8859-5, etc.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetAttachmentDisposition
BOOL CkEmail_SetAttachmentDisposition(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *disposition);

Set's an attachment's disposition. The default disposition of an attachment is "attachment". This method is typically called to change the disposition to "inline". The 1st attachment is at index 0.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetAttachmentFilename
BOOL CkEmail_SetAttachmentFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *filename);

Renames a email attachment's filename. The 1st attachment is at index 0.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetBinaryBody
BOOL CkEmail_SetBinaryBody(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData byteData, const char *contentType, const char *disposition, const char *filename);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.44

Sets the main body of the email to binary content of any type. The disposition can be an empty string, "inline", or "attachment". If a filename is specified, the disposition must be non-empty because the filename is an attribute of the content-disposition header field.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetDecryptCert
BOOL CkEmail_SetDecryptCert(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkCert cert);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.57

Allows for a certificate to be explicity provided for decryption. When an email object is loaded via any method, such as LoadEml, SetFromMimeText, SetFromMimeBytes, etc., security layers (signatures and encryption) are automatically unwrapped. This method could be called prior to calling a method that loads the email.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetDecryptCert2
BOOL CkEmail_SetDecryptCert2(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkCert cert, HCkPrivateKey key);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.57

Allows for a certificate and private key to be explicity specified for decryption. When an email object is loaded via any method, such as LoadEml, SetFromMimeText, SetFromMimeBytes, etc., security layers (signatures and encryption) are automatically unwrapped. Decryption requires a private key. On Windows-based systems, the private key is often pre-installed and nothing need be done to provide it because Chilkat will automatically find it and use it. However, if not on a Windows system, or if the private key was not pre-installed, then it can be provided by this method, or via the AddPfxSourceFile / AddPfxSourceData methods.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetDt
BOOL CkEmail_SetDt(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkDateTime dt);

Sets the "Date" header field of the email to have the value of the date/time object provided.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetEdifactBody
void CkEmail_SetEdifactBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *message, const char *name, const char *filename, const char *charset);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.28

Creates a typical email used to send EDIFACT messages. Does the following:

  1. Sets the email body to the EDIFACT message passed in message.
  2. Sets the Content-Transfer-Encoding to Base64.
  3. Set the Content-Type equal to "application/EDIFACT".
  4. Sets the Content-Type header's name attribute to name.
  5. Sets the Content-Disposition equal to "attachment".
  6. Sets the Content-Disposition's "filename" attribute equal to filename.
  7. The EDIFACT message is converted to the charset indicated by charset, and encoded using Base64 in the email body.
The email's subject, recipients, FROM address, and other headers are left unmodified.

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SetEncryptCert
BOOL CkEmail_SetEncryptCert(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkCert cert);

Set the encryption certificate to be used in encryption. Use the CreateCS, CertStore, and Cert classes to create a Cert object by either locating a certificate in a certificate store or loading one from a file.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetFromMimeBd
BOOL CkEmail_SetFromMimeBd(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkBinData bindat);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.62

Loads an email with the MIME stored in a BinData object.

Note: This replaces the entire contents of the email object, including the To/CC recipients.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetFromMimeBytes
BOOL CkEmail_SetFromMimeBytes(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData mimeBytes);

Loads the email object with the mimeBytes. If the email object already contained an email, it is entirely replaced. The character encoding (such as "utf-8", "iso-8859-1", etc.) of the bytes is automatically inferred from the content. If for some reason it is not possible to determine the character encoding, the SetFromMimeBytes2 method may be called to explicitly specify the charset.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetFromMimeBytes2
BOOL CkEmail_SetFromMimeBytes2(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkByteData mimeBytes, const char *charset);

Loads the email object with the mimeBytes. If the email object already contained an email, it is entirely replaced.

The charset specifies the character encoding of the MIME bytes (such as "utf-8", "iso-8859-1", etc.).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetFromMimeSb
BOOL CkEmail_SetFromMimeSb(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkStringBuilder sb);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.62

Loads an email with the MIME stored in a StringBuilder object.

Note: This replaces the entire contents of the email object, including the To/CC recipients.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetFromMimeText
BOOL CkEmail_SetFromMimeText(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *mimeText);

Loads an email with the contents of a .eml (i.e. MIME) contained in a string.

Note: This replaces the entire contents of the email object, including the To/CC recipients.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetFromXmlText
BOOL CkEmail_SetFromXmlText(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *xmlStr);

Loads an email from an XML string.

Note: This replaces the entire contents of the email object, including the To/CC recipients.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetHtmlBody
void CkEmail_SetHtmlBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *html);

Sets the HTML body of an email.

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SetMbHtmlBody
BOOL CkEmail_SetMbHtmlBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *charset, HCkByteData inData);

Sets the HTML email body from a byte array containing character data in the specified character set. This method also updates the email "content-type"header to properly reflect the content type of the body.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetMbPlainTextBody
BOOL CkEmail_SetMbPlainTextBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *charset, HCkByteData inData);

Sets the plain-text email body from a byte array containing character data in the specified character set. This method also updates the email "content-type"header to properly reflect the content type of the body.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetRelatedFilename
BOOL CkEmail_SetRelatedFilename(HCkEmail cHandle, int index, const char *path);

Sets the filename for a related item within the email.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetReplacePattern
BOOL CkEmail_SetReplacePattern(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *pattern, const char *replaceString);

Create a pattern/replacement-text pair for mail-merge. When the email is sent via the MailMan's SendEmail method, or any other mail-sending method, the patterns are replaced with the replacement strings during the sending process. To define multiple replacement patterns, simply call SetReplacePattern once per pattern/replacement string. (Note: The MailMan's RenderToMime method will also do pattern replacements. Methods such as SaveEml or GetMime do not replace patterns.)

Note: Replacement patterns may be placed in any header field, and in both HTML and plain-text email bodies.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetSigningCert
BOOL CkEmail_SetSigningCert(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkCert cert);

Set the certificate to be used in creating a digital signature. Use the CreateCS, CertStore, and Cert classes to create a Cert object by either locating a certificate in a certificate store or loading one from a file.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetSigningCert2
BOOL CkEmail_SetSigningCert2(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkCert cert, HCkPrivateKey key);

Explicitly sets the certificate and private key to be used for sending digitally signed email. If the certificate's private key is already installed on the computer, then one may simply call SetSigningCert because the Chilkat component will automatically locate and use the corresponding private key (stored in the Windows Protected Store). In most cases, if the digital certificate is already installed w/ private key on the computer, it is not necessary to explicitly set the signing certificate at all. The Chilkat component will automatically locate and use the certificate containing the FROM email address (from the registry-based certificate store where it was installed).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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SetTextBody
void CkEmail_SetTextBody(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *bodyText, const char *contentType);

Sets the body of the email and also sets the Content-Type header field of the contentType. If the email is already multipart/alternative, an additional alternative with the indicated Content-Type will be added. If an alternative with the same Content-Type already exists, it is replaced.

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UidlEquals
BOOL CkEmail_UidlEquals(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkEmail e);

True if the caller email has a UIDL that equals the email passed in the argument.

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UnpackHtml
BOOL CkEmail_UnpackHtml(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *unpackDir, const char *htmlFilename, const char *partsSubdir);

Unpacks an HTML email into an HTML file and related files (images and style sheets). The links within the HTML are updated to point to the files unpacked and saved to disk.

The unpackDir is the absolute or relative directory path where the HTML file should be written. The partsSubdir is the subdirectory beneath unpackDir where images and style sheets should be written. If partsSubdir does not already exist, it is automatically created.

For example, if unpackDir = "C:/test", htmlFilename = "myEmail.html", and partsSubdir = "images", then C:/test/myEmail.html is created, and the related files are written into C:/test/images.

Note: The UnpackHtml method extracts images that are actually contained within the email itself. If the HTML contains an "IMG" tag that just links to an image on the web (but the image data is not contained locally within the email), then the image is not unpacked (because it would need to be downloaded from the web).

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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UnSpamify
void CkEmail_UnSpamify(HCkEmail cHandle);

Unobfuscates emails by undoing what spammers do to obfuscate email. It removes comments from HTML bodies and unobfuscates hyperlinked URLs.

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UnzipAttachments
BOOL CkEmail_UnzipAttachments(HCkEmail cHandle);

Unzips and replaces any Zip file attachments with the expanded contents. As an example, if an email contained a single Zip file containing 3 GIF image files as an attachment, then after calling this method the email would contain 3 GIF file attachments, and the Zip attachment would be gone.If an email contains multiple Zip file attachments, each Zip is expanded and replaced with the contents.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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UseCertVault
BOOL CkEmail_UseCertVault(HCkEmail cHandle, HCkXmlCertVault vault);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.40

Adds an XML certificate vault to the object's internal list of sources to be searched for certificates and private keys when encrypting/decrypting or signing/verifying. Unlike the AddPfxSourceData and AddPfxSourceFile methods, only a single XML certificate vault can be used. If UseCertVault is called multiple times, only the last certificate vault will be used, as each call to UseCertVault will replace the certificate vault provided in previous calls.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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ZipAttachments
BOOL CkEmail_ZipAttachments(HCkEmail cHandle, const char *zipFilename);

Replaces all the attachments of an email with a single Zip file attachment having the filename specified.

Returns TRUE for success, FALSE for failure.

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