Perl

Get the Full MIME of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments. The result is suitable for saving as a .eml file. This example builds a message and prints its MIME.

Background: MIME is the on-the-wire text format of an email — the exact bytes a mail server sends and receives. GetMime serializes the in-memory Email object into that format, assembling headers, encoding attachments as Base64, and adding the multipart boundaries that separate the parts. It is the natural way to persist a message (as .eml), inspect exactly what will be transmitted, or hand the message to another system.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing
# the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('GetMime example');
$email->From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body('Hello, this is the message body.');

# Get the complete RFC822/MIME text (suitable for saving as a .eml file).
print $email->GetMime(), "\n";