Load an Email from MIME Text in a String

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as the contents of a .eml file) held in a string. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email to MIME with GetMime, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the in-memory (string) counterpart to LoadEml, which reads MIME from a file. It is handy when the raw message text arrives from somewhere other than the filesystem — a database column, an HTTP response, or a message queue — letting you parse it straight into a fully populated Email object.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmail source;
    const char *mimeText;
    HCkEmail email;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as
    //  the contents of a .eml file) held in a string.  On success, it replaces the entire
    //  current email.

    //  Build a source email and get its MIME text.
    source = CkEmail_Create();
    CkEmail_putSubject(source,"Source message");
    CkEmail_putFrom(source,"alice@example.com");
    CkEmail_putBody(source,"Hello from MIME text.");
    mimeText = CkEmail_getMime(source);

    //  Load a new email object from the MIME text.
    email = CkEmail_Create();
    success = CkEmail_SetFromMimeText(email,mimeText);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmail_Dispose(source);
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

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


    CkEmail_Dispose(source);
    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }