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Get an Email's MIME into a BinData

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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llSuccess = .F.

//  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.

loEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
loEmail.Subject = "GetMimeBd example"
loEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
loEmail.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
loEmail.Body = "Hello!"

//  Append the complete MIME to a BinData object.
loBdMime = createobject("CkBinData")
llSuccess = loEmail.GetMimeBd(loBdMime)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    release loEmail
    release loBdMime
    return
endif

? "MIME size (bytes) = " + str(loBdMime.NumBytes)


release loEmail
release loBdMime