Visual FoxPro

Load an Email from MIME in a BinData

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

Background: This is the binary counterpart to SetFromMimeText and SetFromMimeSb. When a message's raw MIME arrives as bytes — read from a file, a socket, or a database blob into a BinData — loading it directly avoids any lossy or awkward byte-to-text conversion, which matters because MIME can carry binary transfer encodings.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loSource
LOCAL loBdMime
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from MIME stored in a BinData
*  object.  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

*  Build a source email and serialize its MIME into a BinData.
loSource = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loSource.Subject = "Source message"
loSource.From = "alice@example.com"
loSource.Body = "Hello from a BinData."
loBdMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')
loSource.GetMimeBd(loBdMime)

*  Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

lnSuccess = loEmail.SetFromMimeBd(loBdMime)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loSource
    RELEASE loBdMime
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Loaded subject: " + loEmail.Subject

RELEASE loSource
RELEASE loBdMime
RELEASE loEmail