The following delphi example codes demonstrate how to send email with file attachment using SMTP server.
To send an email with file attachment, we need to use AddAttachment method. This method can attach a file to the email message from local disk or a remote URL.
Sections:
EASendMail is a SMTP component which supports all operations of SMTP/ESMTP protocols (RFC 821, RFC 822, RFC 2554). Before you can use the following example codes, you should download the EASendMail Installer and install it on your machine at first.
To use EASendMail SMTP ActiveX Object in your Delphi project, the first step is “Add Unit file of EASendMail to your project”.
Please go to C:\Program Files\EASendMail\Include\delphi
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\EASendMail\Include\delphi
folder, find EASendMailObjLib_TLB.pas
,
and then copy this file to your project folder.
unit Unit1;
interface
// include EASendMailObjLib_TLB unit to your Delphi Project
uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, EASendMailObjLib_TLB, StdCtrls;
You can also create “EASendMailObjLib_TLB.pas” manually like this:
Delphi 7
Please choose menu -> Project
-> Import Type Library
and select EASendMailObj ActiveX Object
,
click Create Unit
, the reference of EASendMail ActiveX Object will be added to your project.
Delphi XE
If you use Delphi XE to import the Type library, Please choose menu
-> Component
-> Import Component
-> Import Type Library
-> and select
EASendMailObj ActiveX Object
-> have Generate Component Wrapper
checked -> Create Unit.
Then you can start to use it in your Delphi Project.
The following example codes demonstrate sending email with attachment.
In order to run it correctly, please change SMTP server
, user
, password
, sender
, recipient
value to yours.
Note
To get full sample projects, please download and install EASendMail on your machine.
Unit Unit1;
Interface
Uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, StdCtrls, EASendMailObjLib_TLB; // add EASendMail Unit
Type
TForm1 = Class(TForm)
Button1: TButton;
Procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
private
{ Private declarations }
public
{ Public declarations }
End;
const
ConnectNormal = 0;
ConnectSSLAuto = 1;
ConnectSTARTTLS = 2;
ConnectDirectSSL = 3;
ConnectTryTLS = 4;
Var
Form1: TForm1;
Implementation
{$R *.dfm}
Procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
Var
oSmtp : TMail;
Begin
oSmtp := TMail.Create(Application);
oSmtp.LicenseCode := 'TryIt';
// Set your sender email address
oSmtp.FromAddr := 'test@emailarchitect.net';
// Add recipient email address
oSmtp.AddRecipientEx('support@emailarchitect.net', 0);
// Set email subject
oSmtp.Subject := 'test HTML email from Delphi project';
// Set HTML body format
oSmtp.BodyFormat := 1;
// Set HTML body text
oSmtp.BodyText := '<font size=5>This is</font> <font color=red><b>a test</b></font>';
// Add attachment from local disk
If oSmtp.AddAttachment('c:\test.doc') <> 0 Then
ShowMessage('Failed to add attachment with error: ' +
oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription());
// Add attachment from remote website
If oSmtp.AddAttachment('http://www.emailarchitect.net/webapp/img/logo.jpg') <> 0 Then
ShowMessage('Failed to add attachment with error: ' +
oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription());
// Your SMTP server address
oSmtp.ServerAddr := 'smtp.emailarchitect.net';
// User and password for ESMTP authentication, if your server doesn't require
// user authentication, please remove the following codes
oSmtp.UserName := 'test@emailarchitect.net';
oSmtp.Password := 'testpassword';
// ConnectTryTLS means if server supports SSL/TLS connection, SSL/TLS is used automatically
oSmtp.ConnectType := ConnectTryTLS;
// If your server uses 587 port
// oSmtp.ServerPort := 587;
// If your server uses 25/587/465 port with SSL/TLS
// oSmtp.ConnectType := ConnectSSLAuto;
// oSmtp.ServerPort := 587; // 25 or 587 or 465
ShowMessage('start to send email ...');
If oSmtp.SendMail() = 0 Then
ShowMessage('email was sent successfully!')
Else
ShowMessage('failed to send email with the following error: '
+ oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription());
End;
End.
TLS is the successor of SSL, more and more SMTP servers require TLS 1.2
encryption now.
If your operating system is Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2
, you need to
enable TLS 1.2 protocol in your operating system like this:
Enable TLS 1.2 on Windows XP/Vista/7/10/Windows 2008/2008 R2/2012
Seperate builds of run-time dll for 32 and x64 platform
File | Platform |
Installation Path\Lib\native\x86\EASendMailObj.dll | 32 bit |
Installation Path\Lib\native\x64\EASendMailObj.dll | 64 bit |
Standard EXE
For VB6, C++, Delphi or other standard exe application, you can distribute EASendMailObj.dll with your application to target machine without COM-registration and installer. To learn more detail, please have a look at Registration-free COM with Manifest File.
Script
For ASP, VBScript, VBA, MS SQL Stored Procedure, you need to install EASendMail on target machine by EASendMail installer, both 32bit/x64 DLL are installed and registered.
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