Perl

Save an Email to a Chilkat XML File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveXml method, which converts the email object to Chilkat's XML representation and saves it to a file. It can later be reloaded with LoadXml. This example builds a message and saves it as XML.

Background: This XML format is an alternative to the standard .eml (MIME) format for persisting an email. Note that .eml also preserves Chilkat's CKX- metadata headers (which are always removed before an email is sent), so it captures the same information. Because .eml is universal and interoperable, Chilkat recommends using SaveEml / LoadEml over the XML format — even within Chilkat-based software.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the SaveXml method, which converts the email object to Chilkat's XML
#  representation and saves it to a file.  It can later be reloaded with LoadXml.

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Save as XML");
$email->put_From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo("Bob",'bob@example.com');
$email->put_Body("Hello!");

#  Save the email to a Chilkat XML file.
$success = $email->SaveXml("qa_output/email.xml");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Saved to email.xml." . "\r\n";

#  Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
#  relative to the current working directory of the running application.