Render an Email to MIME Bytes in a BinData

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Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME bytes and appends the result to a BinData, without sending the email. This example renders a message into a BinData and prints the byte count.

Background: This is the binary version of RenderToMime. A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the rendered MIME as binary — to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API expecting a byte buffer — rather than as text.

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bool success = false;

//  Demonstrates the MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME
//  bytes and appends the result to a BinData (without sending the email).

Chilkat.MailMan mailman = new Chilkat.MailMan();

//  Build the email to render.
Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email();
email.Subject = "Rendered email";
email.From = "alice@example.com";
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com");
email.Body = "This message is rendered to MIME bytes in a BinData.";

//  Render the MIME into a BinData.
Chilkat.BinData bdMime = new Chilkat.BinData();

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

Debug.WriteLine("Rendered MIME size (bytes) = " + Convert.ToString(bdMime.NumBytes));