Perl

Render an Email to MIME Bytes in a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME bytes and appends the result to a BinData, without sending the email. This example renders a message into a BinData and prints the byte count.

Background: This is the binary version of RenderToMime. A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the rendered MIME as binary — to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API expecting a byte buffer — rather than as text.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME
#  bytes and appends the result to a BinData (without sending the email).

$mailman = chilkat::CkMailMan->new();

#  Build the email to render.
$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Rendered email");
$email->put_From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo("Bob",'bob@example.com');
$email->put_Body("This message is rendered to MIME bytes in a BinData.");

#  Render the MIME into a BinData.
$bdMime = chilkat::CkBinData->new();

$success = $mailman->RenderToMimeBd($email,$bdMime);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Rendered MIME size (bytes) = " . $bdMime->get_NumBytes() . "\r\n";