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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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import sys
import chilkat2

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 = chilkat2.Email()
source.Subject = "Source message"
source.From = "alice@example.com"
source.Body = "Hello from MIME text."
mimeText = source.GetMime()

# Load a new email object from the MIME text.
email = chilkat2.Email()
success = email.SetFromMimeText(mimeText)
if (success == False):
    print(email.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

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