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| //by Richard Russell, October 2012, corrected August 2015//\\ \\ | //by Richard Russell, October 2012, corrected August 2015//\\ \\ | ||
| - | ==== See also [[/Sending%20an%20HTML%20email%20with%20optional%20attachments|Sending an HTML email with optional attachments]] ==== | + | See also [[/Sending%20an%20HTML%20email%20with%20optional%20attachments|Sending an HTML email with optional attachments]] |
| \\ In the article [[/Sending%20an%20email%20automatically|Sending an email automatically]] the procedure **PROCsendmail()** automatically sends an email using the SOCKLIB library. Listed below is a procedure which performs the same function except that you can specify one or more files to attach to the email. The final parameter is a comma-separated list of the pathnames of the file(s) you wish to attach. The procedure might be called as follows:\\ | \\ In the article [[/Sending%20an%20email%20automatically|Sending an email automatically]] the procedure **PROCsendmail()** automatically sends an email using the SOCKLIB library. Listed below is a procedure which performs the same function except that you can specify one or more files to attach to the email. The final parameter is a comma-separated list of the pathnames of the file(s) you wish to attach. The procedure might be called as follows:\\ | ||
| + | <code bb4w> | ||
| INSTALL @lib$+"SOCKLIB" | INSTALL @lib$+"SOCKLIB" | ||
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| PROCsendmailattach(SMTP$,From$,To$,"","",Subject$,ReplyTo$,Message$,Attach$) | PROCsendmailattach(SMTP$,From$,To$,"","",Subject$,ReplyTo$,Message$,Attach$) | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| The calling program should first check that the attached files actually exist, because if not **PROCattach()** will abort with an error and not terminate the SMTP transaction; this could leave the server 'in limbo'. **Note that if an attached file path contains spaces or punctuation characters you must enclose it in quotes**.\\ \\ Here is **PROCsendmailattach()**; like **PROCsendmail()** it cannot be used if authentication is required so in practice that probably means that your ISP's SMTP server must be used:\\ | The calling program should first check that the attached files actually exist, because if not **PROCattach()** will abort with an error and not terminate the SMTP transaction; this could leave the server 'in limbo'. **Note that if an attached file path contains spaces or punctuation characters you must enclose it in quotes**.\\ \\ Here is **PROCsendmailattach()**; like **PROCsendmail()** it cannot be used if authentication is required so in practice that probably means that your ISP's SMTP server must be used:\\ | ||
| + | <code bb4w> | ||
| DEF PROCsendmailattach(smtp$,from$,rcpt$,cc$,bcc$,subject$,replyto$,body$,attach$) | DEF PROCsendmailattach(smtp$,from$,rcpt$,cc$,bcc$,subject$,replyto$,body$,attach$) | ||
| LOCAL D%, S%, skt%, comma%, reply$, file$ | LOCAL D%, S%, skt%, comma%, reply$, file$ | ||
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| IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "--BB4Wsep") | IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "--BB4Wsep") | ||
| IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "Content-Type: application/octet-stream") | IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "Content-Type: application/octet-stream") | ||
| - | IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="+file$) | + | IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="""+file$+"""") |
| IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64") | IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64") | ||
| IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "") | IF FN_writelinesocket(skt%, "") | ||
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| CLOSE #F% | CLOSE #F% | ||
| ENDPROC | ENDPROC | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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