Load an Email from MIME in a StringBuilder

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeSb method, which loads an email from the MIME text stored in a StringBuilder object. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email into a StringBuilder with GetMimeSb, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the StringBuilder counterpart to SetFromMimeText. When the MIME already lives in a StringBuilder — perhaps assembled or edited there — passing it directly avoids converting to an intermediate string, which is more efficient for large messages.

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bool success = false;

//  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeSb method, which loads an email from MIME text stored in a
//  StringBuilder object.  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

//  Build a source email and get its MIME into a StringBuilder.
Chilkat.Email source = new Chilkat.Email();
source.Subject = "Source message";
source.From = "alice@example.com";
source.Body = "Hello from a StringBuilder.";
Chilkat.StringBuilder sbMime = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();
source.GetMimeSb(sbMime);

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

success = email.SetFromMimeSb(sbMime);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

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