Load an Email from MIME in a BinData

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from the MIME stored in a BinData object. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email into a BinData with GetMimeBd, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to SetFromMimeText and SetFromMimeSb. When a message's raw MIME arrives as bytes — read from a file, a socket, or a database blob into a BinData — loading it directly avoids any lossy or awkward byte-to-text conversion, which matters because MIME can carry binary transfer encodings.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>
#include <C_CkBinData.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmail source;
    HCkBinData bdMime;
    HCkEmail email;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from MIME stored in a BinData
    //  object.  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

    //  Build a source email and serialize its MIME into a BinData.
    source = CkEmail_Create();
    CkEmail_putSubject(source,"Source message");
    CkEmail_putFrom(source,"alice@example.com");
    CkEmail_putBody(source,"Hello from a BinData.");
    bdMime = CkBinData_Create();
    CkEmail_GetMimeBd(source,bdMime);

    //  Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
    email = CkEmail_Create();

    success = CkEmail_SetFromMimeBd(email,bdMime);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmail_Dispose(source);
        CkBinData_Dispose(bdMime);
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    printf("Loaded subject: %s\n",CkEmail_subject(email));


    CkEmail_Dispose(source);
    CkBinData_Dispose(bdMime);
    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }