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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bool 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.
Chilkat.Email source = new Chilkat.Email();
source.Subject = "Source message";
source.From = "alice@example.com";
source.Body = "Hello from MIME text.";
string mimeText = source.GetMime();

//  Load a new email object from the MIME text.
Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email();
success = email.SetFromMimeText(mimeText);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

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