FathMail component guide

FathMail features:

send message using SMTP with optional authentication

add attachments (files, images, etc.)

enumerate/retrieve/delete messages from POP3 servers

ability to retrieve only header of a message for faster processing

store messages into archive and create messages out of raw MIME text

receive/enumerate/save attachments from received messages

Here is sample code in Visual Basic showing basic functions of FathMail object.

For more info on FathMail objects, properties and methods, see FathMail reference.

Compose a new message

Dim oMsg as FathMail.Message

Set oMsg= New FathMail.Message

oMsg.Sender = "myaddress@domain.com"

oMsg.Recipient = "hisaddress@domain.com"

oMsg.Subject = "test message"

oMsg.Text = "Hi, this is a message."

oMsg.TextHTML = "Hi, <p> this is a HTML message."

oMsg.AddAttachment "mypicture.jpg"

Dim oSMTP as FathMail.SMTP

Set oSMTP = New FathMail.SMTP

oSMTP.ServerAddr = "mail.domain.com"

oSMTP.Send oMsg

mail server address can be retrieved through DNS MX record with SMTP GetMX method:

oSMTP.ServerAddr = oSMTP.GetMX ( "hisaddress@domain.com" )

Dim oPOP3 as FathMail.POP3

Set oPOP3 = New FathMail.POP3

oPOP3.ServerAddr = "mail.domain.com"

oPOP3.Username = "scott"

oPOP3.Password = "tiger"

oPOP3.Connect

if oPOP3.GetMessageCount Then

oMsg = oPOP3.Retrieve(1) 'retrieve first message and store it in Message object

End If

oPOP3.Disconnect

Massage data can be stored in text variable with GetRaw method of Message object. And displayed later using SetRaw method.

Dim sMsg as String

sMsg = oMsg.GetRaw

now you can store sMsg in database or text file.

If you want to display a stored message from archive, just read this string from a database and create Message object using SetRaw method.

sMsg=ReadDatabase()

oMsg.SetRaw sMsg

oSMTP.Send oMsg

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