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Load an Email from MIME in a BinData

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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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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    //  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.
    var source = new chilkat.Email();
    source.Subject = "Source message";
    source.From = "alice@example.com";
    source.Body = "Hello from a BinData.";
    var bdMime = new chilkat.BinData();
    source.GetMimeBd(bdMime);

    //  Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
    var email = new chilkat.Email();

    success = email.SetFromMimeBd(bdMime);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(email.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log("Loaded subject: " + email.Subject);

}

chilkatExample();