Hi Everyone.
In my last project I needed an email function. I decided to use the NET Lib to send mails via SMTP.
If you use messages with attachments, there is nothing special to discuss, but without attachments it is a little bit tricky.
The reason for attention is the SMPT/MIME Type "Quoted-Printable, or QP encoding"
which treats an equal sign plus 2 following characters as control characters for mails
without attachments.
(ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable)
In this code snippet you can see how to handle that.
Example from an "undelivered" Mail Server email file (with substitutions: = to =3D )
Example Email with Attachment (NO need to replace: = to =3D ) !
For the account parameter maintenance I used the AHPreference lib.
I attached the code zip file.
Maybe there will be an option to influence the header of SMTP transmissions in the future.
At the moment I see no options to send multiparted Mails (for sending embedded bitmaps)
see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html and http://mobiledevtuts.com/android/android-sdk-smtp-email-tutorial/
greets Jens
In my last project I needed an email function. I decided to use the NET Lib to send mails via SMTP.
If you use messages with attachments, there is nothing special to discuss, but without attachments it is a little bit tricky.
The reason for attention is the SMPT/MIME Type "Quoted-Printable, or QP encoding"
which treats an equal sign plus 2 following characters as control characters for mails
without attachments.
(ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable)
In this code snippet you can see how to handle that.
B4X:
#Region Project Attributes
#ApplicationLabel: B4A SMTP Snippet
#VersionCode: 1
#VersionName: 1.0.0
'SupportedOrientations possible values: unspecified, landscape or portrait.
#SupportedOrientations: landscape
#CanInstallToExternalStorage: False
#End Region
#Region Activity Attributes
#FullScreen: False
#IncludeTitle: True
#End Region
Sub Process_Globals
'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
'These variables can be accessed from all modules.
' DONT FORGET Manifest ****
' AddApplicationText(<activity android:name="de.amberhome.objects.preferenceactivity"/>)
' DONT FORGET Manifest ****
Dim Manager As AHPreferenceManager
Dim Screen As AHPreferenceScreen
Dim SMTP As SMTP
End Sub
Sub Globals
'These global variables will be redeclared each time the activity is created.
'These variables can only be accessed from this module.
Private BtnPrefs As Button
Private BtnSend As Button
End Sub
Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
'Do not forget to load the layout file created with the visual designer. For example:
Activity.LoadLayout("1")
If FirstTime Then
CreatePreferenceScreen
If Manager.GetAll.Size = 0 Then
' SMTP defaults
Manager.SetString("EmailBody", "000") ' def plain
Manager.SetString("EmailSenderAddress", "")
Manager.SetString("EmailAdr", "")
Manager.SetString("EmailAccountAdr", "")
Manager.SetString("EmailPort", "25")
Manager.SetString("EmailAccountName", "")
Manager.SetString("EmailPassword", "")
Manager.SetString("EmailAuthMethod", "001")
Manager.SetBoolean("EmailUseSSL",False)
Manager.SetBoolean("EmailTLSMode",False)
End If
End If
#If Testing
ForEmailTest
#end if
End Sub
Sub Activity_Resume
End Sub
Sub Activity_Pause (UserClosed As Boolean)
End Sub
Sub CreatePreferenceScreen
Screen.Initialize("Settings", "")
'create category
Dim cat1 As AHPreferenceCategory
Dim EmailScreen As AHPreferenceScreen
EmailScreen.Initialize ("Account","SMTP Account setup")
'** Email HTML or PLAIN content
Dim map3 As Map
map3.Initialize
map3.Put("000", "PLAIN content")
map3.Put("001", "HTML content")
EmailScreen.AddList2("EmailBody", "Email Body", "Html or Plain Text", "000", "", map3)
'** Sender Address
' DONT DARE TO MISUSE !!! ;-)
EmailScreen.AddEditText2("EmailSenderAddress", "FROM Address", "not neccessary" , " ", 1 , False, True, "")
'** Send TO Email Address
EmailScreen.AddEditText2("EmailAdr", "to Address", "Send to Emailaddress" , " ", 1 , False, True, "")
'** SMTP Account Address
EmailScreen.AddEditText2("EmailAccountAdr", "SMTP Address", "Account address" , "", 1 , False, True, "")
'** SMTP Port (25)
EmailScreen.AddEditText2("EmailPort", "SMTP Port", "Default 25" , "25", 2, False, True, "")
'** SMPT Email Account Name
EmailScreen.AddEditText2("EmailAccountName", "Account Name", "Your Account Name" , "", 1 , False, True, "")
'** SMPT Email Account Password
EmailScreen.AddPassword("EmailPassword","Account Password","Your SMTP Account Password","","")
'** SMPT Email Authentication Method
Dim map2 As Map
map2.Initialize
map2.Put("000", "AUTH_CRAM_MD5")
map2.Put("001", "AUTH_LOGIN")
map2.Put("002", "AUTH_PLAIN")
EmailScreen.AddList2("EmailAuthMethod", "Authentication Method", "Default AUTH_LOGIN", "001", "", map2)
'** SMPT Use SSL
EmailScreen.AddCheckBox("EmailUseSSL", "Use SSL", "SSL enabled", "SSL disabled", False, "")
'** SMPT Use TLS Mode
EmailScreen.AddCheckBox("EmailTLSMode", "Use TLS Mode", "TLS enabled", "TLS disabled", False, "")
cat1.Initialize("Email Options")
'****
cat1.AddPreferenceScreen (EmailScreen,"")
Screen.AddPreferenceCategory(cat1)
End Sub
Sub BtnPrefs_click
CreatePreferenceScreen
StartActivity(Screen.CreateIntent)
End Sub
Sub BtnSend_click
ToastMessageShow("Email function request " , True)
Dim EmailSenderAddress As String = Manager.GetString ("EmailSenderAddress")
Dim EmailAdr As String = Manager.GetString ("EmailAdr")
Dim EmailAccountAdr As String = Manager.GetString ("EmailAccountAdr")
Dim EmailPort As Int = Manager.GetString ("EmailPort")
Dim EmailAccountName As String = Manager.GetString ("EmailAccountName")
Dim EmailPassword As String = Manager.GetString ("EmailPassword")
Dim EmailAuthMethod As String = Manager.GetString ("EmailAuthMethod")
Dim EmailUseSSL As Boolean = Manager.GetBoolean ("EmailUseSSL")
Dim EmailTLSMode As Boolean = Manager.GetBoolean ("EmailTLSMode")
Dim EmailBody As String = Manager.Getstring ("EmailBody")
SMTP.Initialize(EmailAccountAdr, EmailPort, EmailAccountName, EmailPassword, "SMTP")
SMTP.UseSSL = EmailUseSSL
If EmailSenderAddress <> "" Then
SMTP.Sender = EmailSenderAddress
End If
Select EmailAuthMethod
Case "000"
SMTP.AuthMethod = SMTP.AUTH_CRAM_MD5
Case "001"
SMTP.AuthMethod = SMTP.AUTH_LOGIN
Case "002"
SMTP.AuthMethod = SMTP.AUTH_PLAIN
Case Else
End Select
SMTP.StartTLSMode = EmailTLSMode
SMTP.To.Add(EmailAdr)
SMTP.Subject = "B4A SMTP Snippet"
Dim BodyTemp As String
'Dim StrUtil As StringUtils
Select EmailBody
Case "000"
SMTP.HtmlBody = False
SMTP.Body = "This is your Email Body Text" _
& Chr(10) & Chr(10) & _
"Have a nice day" & Chr(10) & _
"Your Support Team"
Case "001"
SMTP.HtmlBody = True
BodyTemp = File.ReadString(File.DirAssets, "EMAIL_TEST.htm")
' SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
' DONT Replace when using Attachments
BodyTemp = BodyTemp.Replace ("=","=3D")
' change Background color to #e3efff
BodyTemp = BodyTemp.Replace ("$001","#e3efff")
SMTP.Body = BodyTemp
Case Else
End Select
' SMTP.AddAttachment(File.DirRootExternal, "somefile")
SMTP.Send
End Sub
Sub SMTP_MessageSent(Success As Boolean)
' Log(Success)
If Success Then
ToastMessageShow("Youre Message was sent successfully", True)
Else
' ToastMessageShow("Error sending message", True)
Msgbox(LastException.Message,"Email Sending Problem")
' Log(LastException.Message)
End If
End Sub
Sub ForEmailTest
' SMTP defaults
Manager.SetString("EmailSenderAddress", "YoureE2rp@xamp.com")
Manager.SetString("EmailAdr", "E2rp@xamp.com")
Manager.SetString("EmailAccountAdr", "192.168.216.22")
Manager.SetString("EmailPort", "25")
Manager.SetString("EmailAccountName", "e2rp@xamp.com")
Manager.SetString("EmailPassword", "")
Manager.SetString("EmailAuthMethod", "001")
Manager.SetBoolean("EmailUseSSL",False)
Manager.SetBoolean("EmailTLSMode",False)
ToastMessageShow("TRON TEST EMAIL SETTIGNS" , True)
End SubExample from an "undelivered" Mail Server email file (with substitutions: = to =3D )
B4X:
Received: from spooler by localhost (Mercury/32 v4.62); 26 Aug 2014 22:30:45 +0200
X-Envelope-To: <E2rp@xamp.com>
Return-path: <e2rp@xamp.com>
Received: from 192.168.216.130 (192.168.216.130) by localhost (Mercury/32 v4.62) with ESMTP ID MG000016;
26 Aug 2014 22:30:38 +0200
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
From: YoureE2rp@xamp.com
To: E2rp@xamp.com
Subject: B4A SMTP Snippet
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang=3D"en" lang=3D"en" dir=3D"ltr">
<head>
<title>Email TEst</title>
<!-- Contents -->
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Language" content=3D"en" />
</head>
<body bgcolor=3D"#e3efff">
<div align=3D"left">
<h1><strong>Hello Friends.</strong></h1>
<p><strong><span class=3D"ff2 fc0 fs10 ">This is a HTML Email contents </span><span class=3D"ff1 fc0 fs10 "><br /><br /><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><span class=3D"ff2 fc0 fs10 ">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</span><span class=3D"ff1 fc0 fs10 "><br />
</strong></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Example Email with Attachment (NO need to replace: = to =3D ) !
B4X:
Received: from spooler by localhost (Mercury/32 v4.62); 27 Aug 2014 19:31:06 +0200
X-Envelope-To: <E2rp@xamp.com>
Return-path: <e2rp@xamp.com>
Received: from 192.168.216.130 (192.168.216.130) by localhost (Mercury/32 v4.62) with ESMTP ID MG000008;
27 Aug 2014 19:30:58 +0200
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="asdasdwdwqd__HV_qwdqwdddwq"
From: YoureE2rp@xamp.com
To: E2rp@xamp.com
Subject: B4A SMTP Snippet
--asdasdwdwqd__HV_qwdqwdddwq
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Email TEst</title>
<!-- Contents -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#e3efff">
<div align="left">
<h1><strong>Hello Friends.</strong></h1>
<p><strong><span class="ff2 fc0 fs10 ">This is a HTML Email contents </span><span class="ff1 fc0 fs10 "><br /><br /><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="ff2 fc0 fs10 ">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</span><span class="ff1 fc0 fs10 "><br />
</strong></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
--asdasdwdwqd__HV_qwdqwdddwq
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="b64gif.b64"
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V3pYeXltN1BIaGh4NGRiZ1lLQUFBNw==For the account parameter maintenance I used the AHPreference lib.
I attached the code zip file.
Maybe there will be an option to influence the header of SMTP transmissions in the future.
At the moment I see no options to send multiparted Mails (for sending embedded bitmaps)
see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html and http://mobiledevtuts.com/android/android-sdk-smtp-email-tutorial/
greets Jens
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