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Save a MIME Body to a File

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Demonstrates how to save a MIME body to a file. The MIME data file used in this example is available at MIME Sample File.

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llSuccess = .F.

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

loMime = createobject("CkMime")

// The contents of this MIME file are shown below, 
// and is also available at https://www.chilkatsoft.com/sampleMime.txt
llSuccess = loMime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/mime/sampleMime.txt")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    release loMime
    return
endif

// The MIME used in this example has the following nested structure
// 
// multipart/alternative
//     text/plain
//     multipart/related
//         text/html
//         image/jpeg
// 

// This example will save each of the non-multipart parts.
// It will create three files -- a .txt, .html, and .jpg.

// Save the body of the text/plain part.

loPTxt = createobject("CkMime")
llSuccess = loMime.PartAt(0,loPTxt)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    release loMime
    release loPTxt
    return
endif

loPTxt.SaveBody("qa_output/textPart.txt")

// Save the HTML part.

loMpRelated = createobject("CkMime")
llSuccess = loMime.PartAt(1,loMpRelated)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    release loMime
    release loPTxt
    release loMpRelated
    return
endif

loPHtml = createobject("CkMime")
llSuccess = loMpRelated.PartAt(0,loPHtml)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loMpRelated.LastErrorText
    release loMime
    release loPTxt
    release loMpRelated
    release loPHtml
    return
endif

loPHtml.SaveBody("qa_output/htmlPart.html")

// Save the JPG binary data.  (The data is automatically base64 decoded prior to saving.)

loPJpg = createobject("CkMime")
llSuccess = loMpRelated.PartAt(1,loPJpg)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loMpRelated.LastErrorText
    release loMime
    release loPTxt
    release loMpRelated
    release loPHtml
    release loPJpg
    return
endif

loPJpg.SaveBody("qa_output/jpgPart.jpg")

// --------------------------------------------------------------
// --------------------------------------------------------------
// The MIME sample file loaded at the beginning of this example
// contains the following MIME:

// Subject: Test email.
// Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
// 	boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
// MIME-Version: 1.0
// 
// --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
// Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed
// Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
// 
// This is a test.
// 
// --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
// Content-Type: multipart/related;
// 	boundary="------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB"
// 
// --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
// Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
// Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
// 
// <html><head>
// <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
//   </head>
//   <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
//     <p>This is a test.&nbsp; <img src="cid:part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com" height="20" width="20"></p>
//   </body>
// </html>
// 
// --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
// Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="starfish20.jpg"
// Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
// Content-ID: <part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com>
// Content-Disposition: inline; filename="starfish20.jpg"
// 
// /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gAmRmlsZSB3cml0dGVuIGJ5IEFkb2JlIFBob3Rvc2hvcD8g
// NC4w/9sAQwAQCwwODAoQDg0OEhEQExgoGhgWFhgxIyUdKDozPTw5Mzg3QEhcTkBEV0U3OFBtUVdf
// YmdoZz5NcXlwZHhcZWdj/9sAQwEREhIYFRgvGhovY0I4QmNjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj
// Y2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj/8IAEQgAFAAUAwERAAIRAQMRAf/EABcAAAMBAAAA
// AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDBAX/xAAYAQADAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEAP/aAAwDAQACEAMQAAAB2kZY
// NNEijWKddfTmLgALWH//xAAbEAACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMRAAQSE//aAAgBAQABBQL0XqN+
// pM2aqJGMiqFFCyg7z//EABwRAAICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAAIQIQMSUf/aAAgBAwEBPwHqU5aq
// Axx+y1tMQl4elj//xAAcEQEAAQUBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACEBIhA1H/2gAIAQIBAT8B3Bhqy7Zc
// enyiwmGgDhiOzj//xAAdEAABAwUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIREBIhIkFR/9oACAEBAAY/ArZyn+Cg
// xtxWuJaoCnqDuin/xAAcEAABBAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABABEhYRAxQVH/2gAIAQEAAT8hkEwPUUR9
// DYfE4nxtRpIkBTsayuALIiuY/9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDWPTsf/8QAGhEAAwADAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
// AAEREDFBIf/aAAgBAwEBPxC0DVPcWm+Ce4OesrkE6bjH/8QAGBEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREA
// QRD/2gAIAQIBAT8QahMiOc8YgSrnTY3ELclHXn//xAAcEAEBAAIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAhMUFx
// EFH/2gAIAQEAAT8Qn3igmSZSj+c4N4zapMy9IjFV98wncN2iuLFsCEbDGxQkI6RO/n//2Q==
// 
// --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB--
// 
// --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0--
// 


release loMime
release loPTxt
release loMpRelated
release loPHtml
release loPJpg