Get the Full MIME of an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments. The result is suitable for saving as a .eml file. This example builds a message and prints its MIME.

Background: MIME is the on-the-wire text format of an email — the exact bytes a mail server sends and receives. GetMime serializes the in-memory Email object into that format, assembling headers, encoding attachments as Base64, and adding the multipart boundaries that separate the parts. It is the natural way to persist a message (as .eml), inspect exactly what will be transmitted, or hand the message to another system.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;

    //  Demonstrates the GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing
    //  the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments.

    email = CkEmail_Create();
    CkEmail_putSubject(email,"GetMime example");
    CkEmail_putFrom(email,"alice@example.com");
    CkEmail_AddTo(email,"Bob","bob@example.com");
    CkEmail_putBody(email,"Hello, this is the message body.");

    //  Get the complete RFC822/MIME text (suitable for saving as a .eml file).
    printf("%s\n",CkEmail_getMime(email));


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }