Get an Email's MIME into a BinData

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message (headers, body representations, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData object. This example builds a message, serializes it to a BinData, and prints the byte count.

Background: A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the MIME as binary rather than text — for example to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API that expects a byte buffer. It is the binary counterpart to GetMime (string) and GetMimeSb (StringBuilder).

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    success := false

    //  Demonstrates the GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message
    //  (headers, bodies, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData
    //  object.

    email := chilkat.NewEmail()
    email.SetSubject("GetMimeBd example")
    email.SetFrom("alice@example.com")
    email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
    email.SetBody("Hello!")

    //  Append the complete MIME to a BinData object.
    bdMime := chilkat.NewBinData()
    success = email.GetMimeBd(bdMime)
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(email.LastErrorText())
        email.DisposeEmail()
        bdMime.DisposeBinData()
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("MIME size (bytes) = ", bdMime.NumBytes())

    email.DisposeEmail()
    bdMime.DisposeBinData()