wodMailbox ActiveX Control - Add Method
      
 

Description

Adds new message to mailbox.


Return Type

A Message object.  Reference to new message or message part that was created.


Syntax

object.Add ([Filename])



The Add Method syntax has these parts:

Part Description
object An expression evaluating to an object of type Messages.
Filename Optional. A Variant value. Full path to message to add.

Remarks

Add method will add new message to collection of the messages in the mailbox. Mailbox file will not be updated itself, until you manually call Update method.

When you use Add method, wodMailbox will just change internal indexes to point to file you specified, and increase total count of messages, if needed.

Add can be also used to add new parts to the message. If specified message isn't multipart message, wodMailbox will add appropriate headers to make it multipart, will add boundary where needed etc..

Returned message object references newly created message, or newly created part.

 

You must not violate mail specification for the message you will add to mailbox/part. It has to be regular message - it must have headers, one empty line, and text. If there are no headers - you're doing something wrong, because wodMailbox will be unable to parse it correctly (it will loop through message trying to locate any header, and will fail to do so).

If you're adding new part to the message, and message wasn't multipart before that, wodMailbox will add appropriate header (Content-type) and will create a boundary for you. Your old Message.Text contents will still be at the same place. New part will be added, and you will access it with Message.Parts(0).something .

Content-type header that will be added looks like this:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_XXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX"

where XXXXXXXX are some unique random numbers. If you need to change Content-type, try to parse added header properly and replace multipart/mixed with something else, for example with multipart/alternative.

If Filename parameter is omitted, empty message is created.

NOTE: Add method uses temporary file in temporary folder. There can be problem in ASP environments, where temporary folder is for IUSR_NAME account is reported as 'C:\Documents and settings\Default User\'. If you use this method in such environment, you *must* allow IUSR_NAME to access and write to this directory.