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Get the Decoded MIME Body Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetBodyDecoded method, which returns the decoded body as text. It takes no arguments. Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.

Note: The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background: This gives you the actual, human-readable content of a text part — the two-step decode (transfer encoding, then charset) is exactly what a mail client does to display it. Use it for text parts; for binary content such as an image, decode to bytes with GetBodyBd instead, since forcing binary through a text decode would corrupt it.

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Local $bSuccess = False

$oMime = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Mime")
$bSuccess = $oMime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/message.eml")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oMime.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  Return the body as decoded text.  Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding (Base64
;  or quoted-printable) and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.
Local $sBodyText = $oMime.GetBodyDecoded()
If ($oMime.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oMime.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite($sBodyText & @CRLF)