Perl

Save an Email to a .eml File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to a file. An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message — headers, bodies, related items, and attachments. This example builds a message and saves it.

Background: Saving as .eml writes the message in the universal MIME format that virtually every mail client can open, making it ideal for archiving, sharing, or handing a message to another program. It is the counterpart to LoadEml. A saved .eml also retains Chilkat's CKX- metadata headers (a way to store your own metadata with the email; they are always stripped before an email is sent), so .eml is the recommended way to persist a message even within Chilkat-based software. A separate Chilkat XML format (SaveXml) exists as an alternative, but offers no metadata advantage over .eml.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to
# a file.  An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message, including headers,
# bodies, related items, and attachments.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('Save as EML');
$email->From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body('Hello, this message will be saved as a .eml file.');

# Save the email to a .eml file.
my $success = $email->SaveEml('qa_output/message.eml');
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Saved to message.eml.\n";

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