Latest Release: v5.4.0

Mail ActiveX for Visual Basic, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, Visual C++, and C++ Builder.

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Latest Component Features:

• Display HTML or plain-text Email in a WebBrowser
• Better Multibyte Character Encoding Support

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LATEST MAIL COMPONENT FEATURES

• ReadTimeout property.
  Keeps your application from hanging if the POP3 server stops responding.
• Zip all attachments into a single Zip attachment.
  Integrates with Chilkat Zip to easily replace all existing email attachments with a single Zip file attachment. See ZipAttachments.
• Expand/replace Zip attachments with the Zip file contents.
  Integrates with Chilkat Zip to easily expand and replace all Zip attachments with their contents. See UnzipAttachments
• 128-bit AES symmetric encryption/decryption of all message parts.
  Integrates with Chilkat Crypt to encrypt/decrypt the message body, all alternative bodies, related items, and attachments using 128-bit encryption. See AesEncrypt and AesDecrypt.
• Convert to/from Chilkat S/MIME objects.
  Integrates with Chilkat S/MIME to provide general-purpose low-level MIME message manipulation that may not have been possible before. See GetMimeObject and SetFromMimeObject.

The Chilkat Mail component makes it possible to send and retrieve email from your application or web site without using a program such as Microsoft Outlook or Eudora. Developers can construct and send email from their ASP, Visual Basic, C++, Delphi, or Foxpro code in very simple ways. Because it is built on COM technology, and is fully automation-compliant, it can be called from any language that supports COM.

Features:

• Royalty free licensing. (all Chilkat components are royalty free)
• Automatically convert all incoming email to a charset of your choosing. DETAILS
• Any Cryptographic Service Provider is supported, including Smart Cards. DETAILS
• SMTP authentication for SMTP servers that require a login and password. [more info]
• S/MIME security features allowing you to easily send and receive encrypted or digitally signed email. You can also send/receive email that are both signed and encrypted. [more info]
• MHTML compliant, allowing you to send/receive multipart/related messages. This is the standard way of sending HTML with images included in the email and internally referenced. [more info]
• XML features allowing you to import and export email to XML format. [more info]
• Multipart/alternative support, allowing you to send email that have both HTML and plain-text versions of the message. [more info]
• Message filtering allowing you to filter on the email body or any MIME header field. [more info]
• Developed using Windows XP, tested in Windows XP/2000/NT/98/Me/95.
• Read email from a POP3 server.
• Send email using an SMTP server.
• Easily add one or more file attachments to an email.
• Send HTML email with embedded images.
• Send or read email in any language. Chilkat Mail is fully internationalized.
• Advanced mail merge features.
• Integrates with Chilkat Zip for saving and retrieving email.

Visual Basic Source Code Examples

The following VB examples are included in the download:

• AES Encrypt an Email, Save as XML, then Load and AES Decrypt
• Delete Email from a POP3 Server
• Check the connectivity and login credentials for both POP3 and SMTP servers.
• Convert an email object into a ChilkatMime object, add custom header fields, and save as XML.
• Fetch the headers of all email on a POP3 server.
• Send email in Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
• Load an EML file saved from Outlook Express and send it.
• Load an email bundle previously saved by Chilkat Mail and display the subject of each email in the bundle.
• Load an HTML email previously saved in XML format and display information about the embedded images and style sheets.
• Demonstrate how to use the mail-merge features of Chilkat Mail to send personalized emails to a list.
• Demonstrate the QuickSend method where a simple email is sent in one line of code.
• Read email from a POP3 server.
• Read email from a POP3 server with progress monitoring callbacks.
• Send an email using an SMTP server.
• Send an S/MIME encrypted email.
• Construct and send an HTML email with embedded images.
• Construct and send an email with both HTML and plain-text alternatives.
• Send an email with progress monitoring callbacks.
• Send an S/MIME digitally signed email.
• Send an email with attachments.
• Automatically unzip in memory all attachments received in an email.
• Create an email, add multiple file attachments, Zip them into a single attachment, and send.

C++ Examples: Visual C++ examples are included in the download.

Visual FoxPro: Need help getting started using Chilkat Mail in Visual FoxPro? Click here for a bit of sample code.

Microsoft Excel: Need help getting started using Chilkat Mail in Excel? Click here for some help. (Excel examples are included in the download.)

Delphi Examples: The Delphi examples are included in the download.

Delphi and C++ Builder

Before using this ActiveX component, do not forget to import it into your Delphi or C++ Builder project. If using C++ Builder, you can also use the tomahawk.lib wrapper library. This component will be offered as a C++ Builder static library in the next month. Chilkat will also be providing a Delphi version such that a DLL does not need to be distributed with your Delphi application.

SEE ALSO: Chilkat's Solution to the SMTP Outbound Port 25 Blocking Problem