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Get the Complete MIME Header of an Email

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Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.Header property, which returns the complete MIME header generated from the current in-memory email object. Because this property is read-only, you modify individual fields through their corresponding properties or header methods rather than assigning to Header directly. This example sets a subject, from, and recipient, then prints the full MIME header.

Background: A MIME email is made of two parts separated by a single blank line: the header and the body. The header is a list of Field-Name: value lines — familiar ones include From, To, Subject, and Date, plus structural fields like Content-Type and MIME-Version. Reading the raw header is useful for debugging exactly what a message will look like on the wire.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
'  Demonstrates the read-only Email.Header property, which returns the
'  complete MIME header of the email, generated from the current in-memory
'  email object.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

email.Subject = "Test subject"
email.From = "mary@example.com"
success = email.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")

'  Header is read-only.  Modify individual fields through their properties
'  or header methods rather than assigning to Header.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Header) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>