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Get the Complete MIME Header of an Email

Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.Header property, which returns the complete MIME header generated from the current in-memory email object. Because this property is read-only, you modify individual fields through their corresponding properties or header methods rather than assigning to Header directly. This example sets a subject, from, and recipient, then prints the full MIME header.

Background: A MIME email is made of two parts separated by a single blank line: the header and the body. The header is a list of Field-Name: value lines — familiar ones include From, To, Subject, and Date, plus structural fields like Content-Type and MIME-Version. Reading the raw header is useful for debugging exactly what a message will look like on the wire.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Handle hoEmail
    Boolean iSuccess
    String sTemp1

    //  Demonstrates the read-only Email.Header property, which returns the
    //  complete MIME header of the email, generated from the current in-memory
    //  email object.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatEmail)) To hoEmail
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoEmail))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoEmail
    End

    Set ComSubject Of hoEmail To "Test subject"
    Set ComFrom Of hoEmail To "mary@example.com"
    Get ComAddTo Of hoEmail "Joe" "joe@example.com" To iSuccess

    //  Header is read-only.  Modify individual fields through their properties
    //  or header methods rather than assigning to Header.
    Get ComHeader Of hoEmail To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1


End_Procedure