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

//  Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email();

success = email.SetFromMimeBd(bdMime);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Loaded subject: " + email.Subject);