Render an Email to MIME Without Sending

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Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.RenderToMime method, which renders an Email object as the MIME text that would be sent to the SMTP server, without actually sending it. This example builds a message and prints the rendered MIME.

Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Handle hoMailman
    Variant vEmail
    Handle hoEmail
    Boolean iSuccess
    String sMime

    //  Demonstrates the MailMan.RenderToMime method, which renders an Email object as the MIME
    //  text that would be sent to the SMTP server, without actually sending the email.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMailMan)) To hoMailman
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoMailman))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoMailman
    End

    //  Build the email to render.
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatEmail)) To hoEmail
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoEmail))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoEmail
    End
    Set ComSubject Of hoEmail To "Rendered email"
    Set ComFrom Of hoEmail To "alice@example.com"
    Get ComAddTo Of hoEmail "Bob" "bob@example.com" To iSuccess
    Set ComBody Of hoEmail To "This message is rendered to MIME, not sent."

    //  Render to MIME (no connection to the SMTP server is made).
    Get pvComObject of hoEmail to vEmail
    Get ComRenderToMime Of hoMailman vEmail To sMime
    Showln sMime

    //  Sample output:
    //  
    //    MIME-Version: 1.0
    //    Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:25:42 -0500
    //    Message-ID: <E13F164829E44779462366BF1D8020CA210F8F1F@CHILKAT25>
    //    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
    //    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    //    X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
    //    Subject: Rendered email
    //    From: alice@example.com
    //    To: Bob <bob@example.com>
    //  
    //    This message is rendered to MIME, not sent.
    //  
    //  Note: The Date header is automatically added with the current date/time, and a unique
    //  Message-ID header is generated and added.  The other headers (Content-Type,
    //  Content-Transfer-Encoding, X-Priority, and MIME-Version) have the same values you would
    //  see with Email.GetMime.


End_Procedure