Lua

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 chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- 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.
local source = chilkat.Email.new()
source.subject = "Source message"
source.from = "alice@example.com"
source.body = "Hello from a BinData."
local bdMime = chilkat.BinData.new()
source:get_mime_bd(bdMime)

-- Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
local email = chilkat.Email.new()

local success = email:set_from_mime_bd(bdMime)
if not success then
    print(email.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("Loaded subject: " .. email.subject)