Lua

Create and Save an EML Message from a URL

Demonstrates Mht.GetAndSaveEML, which creates an EML MIME message from a live web page (or local HTML file) and saves it to a file.

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background. The EML output is a MIME email message containing the HTML page and its referenced resources, suitable for sending the page as an HTML email.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local mht = chilkat.Mht.new()

-- The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
-- may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

-- Create an EML MIME message from a live web page and save it to a file.
local success = mht:get_and_save_eml("https://example-code.com/crumb/email.html", "qa_output/page.eml")
if not success then
    print(mht.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("EML saved.")