Chilkat2-Python

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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import sys
import chilkat2

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 = chilkat2.Email()
source.Subject = "Source message"
source.From = "alice@example.com"
source.Body = "Hello from a BinData."
bdMime = chilkat2.BinData()
source.GetMimeBd(bdMime)

# Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
email = chilkat2.Email()

success = email.SetFromMimeBd(bdMime)
if (success == False):
    print(email.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("Loaded subject: " + email.Subject)