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Get the Full MIME of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments. The result is suitable for saving as a .eml file. This example builds a message and prints its MIME.

Background: MIME is the on-the-wire text format of an email — the exact bytes a mail server sends and receives. GetMime serializes the in-memory Email object into that format, assembling headers, encoding attachments as Base64, and adding the multipart boundaries that separate the parts. It is the natural way to persist a message (as .eml), inspect exactly what will be transmitted, or hand the message to another system.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing
-- the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments.

local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "GetMime example"
email.from = "alice@example.com"
email:add_to("Bob", "bob@example.com")
email.body = "Hello, this is the message body."

-- Get the complete RFC822/MIME text (suitable for saving as a .eml file).
print(email:get_mime())