Lua

Convert HTML Text to an EML Message

Demonstrates Mht.HtmlToEML, which creates an EML MIME message from an in-memory HTML string and returns the complete EML text.

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()

-- Create an EML MIME message from an in-memory HTML string and return the complete EML text.
local htmlText = "<html><head><title>Example</title></head><body><h1>Hello</h1><p>An example HTML page.</p></body></html>"
local emlText = mht:html_to_eml(htmlText)
if not mht.last_method_success then
    print(mht.last_error_text)
    return
end

print(emlText)