MimeFactory <\/em>class to create MIME object with content type set to mime-rfc822. This content type is specially designed for attaching email messages.<\/p>\n\r\n\/\/ C# version\r\n\r\nbyte[] eml = GetFirstMessage();\r\n\r\nMailBuilder builder = new MailBuilder();\r\nbuilder.From.Add(new MailBox("from@example.com"));\r\nbuilder.To.Add(new MailBox("forward_address@example.com"));\r\nbuilder.Subject = "Forwarded email is attached";\r\n\r\n\/\/ attach the message\r\nMimeRfc822 rfc822 = new MimeFactory().CreateMimeRfc822();\r\nrfc822.Data = eml;\r\n\r\nbuilder.AddAttachment(rfc822);\r\n\r\nIMail forward = builder.Create();\r\n\r\nusing (Smtp smtp = new Smtp())\r\n{\r\n smtp.Connect("smtp.example.com"); \/\/ or ConnectSSL if you want to use SSL\r\n smtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password");\r\n smtp.SendMessage(forward);\r\n smtp.Close();\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\nstatic byte[] GetFirstMessage()\r\n{\r\n byte[] eml;\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\r\n \/\/ Receive first message\r\n List<long> uids = imap.GetAll();\r\n if (uids.Count == 0)\r\n throw new Exception("There are no messages");\r\n eml = imap.GetMessageByUID(uids[0]);\r\n imap.Close();\r\n }\r\n return eml;\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\n' VB.NET version\r\n\r\nDim eml As Byte()= GetFirstMessage()\r\n\r\nDim builder As New MailBuilder()\r\nbuilder.From.Add(New MailBox("from@example.com"))\r\nbuilder.[To].Add(New MailBox("forward_address@example.com"))\r\nbuilder.Subject = "Forwarded email is attached"\r\n\r\n' attach the message\r\nDim rfc822 As MimeRfc822 = New MimeFactory().CreateMimeRfc822()\r\nrfc822.Data = eml\r\n\r\nbuilder.AddAttachment(rfc822)\r\n\r\nDim forward As IMail = builder.Create()\r\n\r\nUsing smtp As New Smtp()\r\n smtp.Connect("smtp.example.com") ' or ConnectSSL if you want to use SSL\r\n smtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password")\r\n smtp.SendMessage(forward)\r\n smtp.Close()\r\nEnd Using\r\n\r\n\r\nPrivate Function GetFirstMessage() As Byte()\r\n Dim eml As Byte()\r\n Using imap As New Imap()\r\n imap.Connect("imap.example.com") ' or ConnectSSL if you want to use SSL\r\n imap.UseBestLogin("user", "password")\r\n\r\n ' Receive first message\r\n Dim uids As List(Of Long) = imap.GetAll()\r\n If uids.Count = 0 Then\r\n Throw New Exception("There are no messages")\r\n End If\r\n eml = imap.GetMessageByUID(uids(0))\r\n imap.Close()\r\n End Using\r\n Return eml\r\nEnd Function\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nForwarding an email saved to disk<\/h2>\n
If your original message is already saved on disk. You can use AddAttachment<\/em> method. It will automatically choose correct content-type using the file’s extension (.eml).<\/p>\n\r\n\/\/ C#\r\n\r\nMailBuilder builder = new MailBuilder();\r\nbuilder.From.Add(new MailBox("bob@example.com", "Bob"));\r\nbuilder.To.Add(new MailBox("alice@example.com", "Alice"));\r\nbuilder.Subject = "Forwarded message";\r\nbuilder.Text = "Forwarded message is attached.";\r\n\r\nbuilder.AddAttachment("original.eml");\r\n\r\nIMail forward = builder.Create();\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\n' VB.NET\r\n\r\nDim builder As New MailBuilder()\r\nbuilder.From.Add(New MailBox("bob@example.com", "Bob"))\r\nbuilder.[To].Add(New MailBox("alice@example.com", "Alice"))\r\nbuilder.Subject = "Forwarded message"\r\nbuilder.Text = "Forwarded message is attached."\r\n\r\nbuilder.AddAttachment("original.eml")\r\n\r\nDim forward As IMail = builder.Create()\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want to share an email with other parties, forwarding it works like a charm in Mail.dll. There are two ways of forwarding a message: Forwarding an email by inserting the original inline in your forward Forwarding an email as an attachment In this article we’ll describe the second option, in which you add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[74,15,33,50,57],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-dll","tag-attachments","tag-c","tag-email-component","tag-smtp","tag-vb-net"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}