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- Forwarding an email by inserting the original inline in your forward<\/li>\n
- Forwarding an email as a attachment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
In this article we’ll describe the first option, in which you insert the original inline in your forward and copy all attachments. You can use Mail.dll to forward both HTML and plain-text emails.<\/p>\n
ForwardBuilder<\/em> class allows you to specify custom HTML and plain-text templates<\/strong> for the forward. Mail.dll will parse the HTML code, extract body part, and build-in template engine will do the rest.<\/p>\n
The next great thing is that plain-text version of the email is always generated automatically<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nIn our example we’ll use Mail.dll .NET IMAP component<\/a> to download first message from an IMAP server. Then we’ll create new message by using ForwardBuilder<\/em> class. The sample also shows how to add additional attachments to the forwarded email. Finally we’ll use Mail.dll SMTP client to send this message.<\/p>\n
\r\n\/\/ C#\r\n\r\nIMail original = GetFirstMessage();\r\n\r\nForwardBuilder forwardBuilder = original.Forward();\r\n\r\n\/\/ You can specify your own, custom, body and subject templates:\r\nforwardBuilder.HtmlReplyTemplate = @"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN"" ""http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"">\r\n <html>\r\n <head>\r\n <meta http-equiv=""Content-Type"" content=""text\/html; charset=UTF-8"" \/>\r\n <title>[Subject]<\/title>\r\n <\/head>\r\n <body>\r\n [Html]\r\n <br \/><br \/>\r\n On [Original.Date] [Original.Sender.Name] wrote:\r\n <blockquote style=""margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 1em; border-left: 1px #ccc solid;"">\r\n [QuoteHtml]\r\n <\/blockquote>\r\n <\/body>\r\n <\/html>";\r\nforwardBuilder.SubjectReplyTemplate = "Fw: [Original.Subject]";\r\n\r\nforwardBuilder.Html = "Tom, <br\/><br\/>please resolve this.";\r\n\r\nMailBuilder builder = forwardBuilder.Forward(new MailBox("bob@example.org", "Bob"));\r\nbuilder.To.Add(new MailBox("tom@example.org", "Tom"));\r\n\r\n\/\/ You can add attachments to forwarded email\r\n\/\/builder.AddAttachment("report.csv");\r\n\r\nIMail forward = builder.Create();\r\n\r\nusing (Smtp smtp = new Smtp())\r\n{\r\n smtp.Connect("smtp.example.org"); \/\/ or ConnectSSL\r\n smtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password");\r\n smtp.SendMessage(forward);\r\n smtp.Close();\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\nstatic IMail GetFirstMessage()\r\n{\r\n IMail email;\r\n using (Imap imap = new Imap())\r\n {\r\n imap.Connect("imap.example.com"); \/\/ or ConnectSSL if you want to use SSL\r\n imap.UseBestLogin("user", "password");\r\n List<long> uids = imap.GetAll();\r\n if (uids.Count == 0)\r\n throw new Exception("There are no messages");\r\n var eml = imap.GetMessageByUID(uids[0]); \r\n email = new MailBuilder().CreateFromEml(eml);\r\n imap.Close();\r\n }\r\n return email;\r\n}\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\n' VB.NET\r\n\r\nDim original As IMail = GetFirstMessage()\r\n\r\nDim forwardBuilder As ForwardBuilder = original.Forward()\r\n\r\n' You can specify your own, custom, body and subject templates:\r\nforwardBuilder.HtmlReplyTemplate = _\r\n"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN"" ""http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"">" + _\r\n" <html>" + _\r\n" <head>" + _\r\n" <meta http-equiv=""Content-Type"" content=""text\/html; charset=UTF-8"" \/>" + _\r\n" <title>[Subject]<\/title>" + _\r\n" <\/head>" + _\r\n" <body>" + _\r\n" [Html]" + _\r\n" <br \/><br \/>" + _\r\n" On [Original.Date] [Original.Sender.Name] wrote:" + _\r\n" <blockquote style=""margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 1em; border-left: 1px #ccc solid;"">" + _\r\n" [QuoteHtml]" + _\r\n" <\/blockquote>" + _\r\n" <\/body>" + _\r\n" <\/html>"\r\nforwardBuilder.SubjectReplyTemplate = "Fw: [Original.Subject]"\r\n\r\nforwardBuilder.Html = "Tom, <br\/><br\/>please resolve this."\r\n\r\nDim builder As MailBuilder = forwardBuilder.Forward( _\r\n New MailBox("bob@example.org", "Bob"))\r\nbuilder.[To].Add(New MailBox("tom@example.org", "Tom"))\r\n\r\n' You can add attachments to forwarded email\r\n'builder.AddAttachment("report.csv")\r\n\r\nDim forward As IMail = builder.Create()\r\n\r\nUsing smtp As New Smtp()\r\n\tsmtp.Connect("smtp.example.org")\r\n\tsmtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password") ' or ConnectSSL\r\n\tsmtp.SendMessage(forward)\r\n\tsmtp.Close()\r\nEnd Using\r\n\r\nPrivate Shared Function GetFirstMessage() As IMail\r\n\tDim email As IMail\r\n\tUsing imap As New Imap()\r\n\t\timap.Connect("imap.example.com")\r\n\t\t' or ConnectSSL if you want to use SSL\r\n\t\timap.UseBestLogin("user", "password")\r\n\t\tDim uids As List(Of Long) = imap.GetAll()\r\n\t\tIf uids.Count = 0 Then\r\n\t\t\tThrow New Exception("There are no messages")\r\n\t\tEnd If\r\n\t\tDim eml = imap.GetMessageByUID(uids(0))\r\n\t\temail = New MailBuilder().CreateFromEml(eml)\r\n\t\timap.Close()\r\n\tEnd Using\r\n\tReturn email\r\nEnd Function\r\n<\/pre>\nIn the forward templates (HtmlForwardTemplate<\/em>, TextForwardTemplate<\/em>, SubjectForwardTemplate<\/em>) you have access to following fields:<\/p>\n
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- string Subject<\/em> – subject of the forward (e.g. [Subject])<\/li>\n
- string Text<\/em> – plain text of the forward (e.g. [Test])<\/li>\n
- string Html<\/em> – html of the forward (e.g. [Html])<\/li>\n
- string QuoteText<\/em> – original text quoted using ‘>’ chars (e.g. [QuoteText])<\/li>\n
- string QuoteHtml<\/em> – body contents of original html or original text converted to html (e.g. [QuoteHtml])<\/li>\n
- IMail Original<\/em> – original email you are forwarding and all its properties (e.g. [Original.Subject], [Original.Sender.Address])<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- string Text<\/em> – plain text of the forward (e.g. [Test])<\/li>\n
- string Subject<\/em> – subject of the forward (e.g. [Subject])<\/li>\n