Perl

Load an Email from a .eml File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadEml method, which loads a complete email from an .eml file. An EML file contains RFC822/MIME message text. On success, the loaded message replaces the entire current email — recipients, headers, bodies, related items, and attachments. This example loads an EML and reads its subject and from.

Background: .eml is the standard on-disk format for a single email — it is simply the raw MIME saved to a file, which most mail clients can export and open. LoadEml parses that MIME into a fully populated Email object, giving you programmatic access to every part. It is the natural counterpart to SaveEml.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the LoadEml method, which loads a complete email from an .eml file (an EML
# file contains RFC822/MIME message text).  On success, the loaded message replaces the
# entire current email.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;

my $success = $email->LoadEml('qa_data/eml/message.eml');
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Subject: ', $email->Subject, "\n";
print 'From: ', $email->From, "\n";

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