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Load an Email from MIME Text in a String

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as the contents of a .eml file) held in a string. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email to MIME with GetMime, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the in-memory (string) counterpart to LoadEml, which reads MIME from a file. It is handy when the raw message text arrives from somewhere other than the filesystem — a database column, an HTTP response, or a message queue — letting you parse it straight into a fully populated Email object.

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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as
    //  the contents of a .eml file) held in a string.  On success, it replaces the entire
    //  current email.

    //  Build a source email and get its MIME text.
    var source = new chilkat.Email();
    source.Subject = "Source message";
    source.From = "alice@example.com";
    source.Body = "Hello from MIME text.";
    var mimeText = source.GetMime();

    //  Load a new email object from the MIME text.
    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    success = email.SetFromMimeText(mimeText);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(email.LastErrorText);
        return true;
    }

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

}

chilkatExample();