Create Email with Non-Standard Binary Body

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Creates an email where the only body is a binary WAV file. The technique used in the example could be applied to other binary files, such as PDF, MS-WORD docs, Excel docs, etc.

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Dim mime As New ChilkatMime
Dim success As Long

success = mime.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial.")
If (success = 0) Then
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & mime.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If

success = mime.SetBodyFromFile("VoiceMessage.wav")
If (success = 0) Then
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & mime.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If

'  The MIME has this header:
'  Content-Disposition: attachment;
'  	 filename="VoiceMessage.wav"
'  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
'  Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
'  	name="VoiceMessage.wav"

'  We don't want the content-disposition to be an
'  attachment -- otherwise the email object will self-correct
'  and put it in a multipart/mixed format...
mime.Disposition = ""
mime.Filename = ""

Dim strMime As String
strMime = mime.GetMime()
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & strMime & vbCrLf

'  Now load it into an email object:
Dim email As New ChilkatEmail2
success = email.SetFromMimeText(strMime)
If (success = 0) Then
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & email.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Add subject, TO, FROM, etc.
email.Subject = "This is a test"
email.From = "support@chilkatsoft.com"
email.AddTo "Matt","matt@chilkatsoft.com"

'  Your email is ready to send.
'  (but for this example, we'll simply save it to a file...)
success = email.SaveEml("email.eml")
If (success = 0) Then
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & email.LastErrorText & vbCrLf
    Exit Sub
End If

MsgBox "OK!"