Perl

Set the Email Body from a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in a BinData object. The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the disposition (may be empty, inline, or attachment), and the fourth is the filename. This example loads HTML content into a BinData and sets it as the body.

Background: SetBodyBd gives low-level control over the body when you already have its bytes and want to specify the exact Content-Type and MIME disposition yourself. It suits content that is generated or stored as binary — for example an EDI payload, a pre-rendered HTML fragment, or any custom content type — where the convenience of SetHtmlBody / SetTextBody does not apply.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in
# a BinData object.  The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the
# disposition (may be empty, "inline", or "attachment"), and the fourth is the filename.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('Body from BinData');

# Load the body content from a file into a BinData object.
my $bd = Chilkat2::BinData->new;
my $success = $bd->LoadFile('qa_data/html/body.html');
if (!$success) {
    print $bd->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Set the main body from the binary data as text/html.
$success = $email->SetBodyBd($bd, 'text/html', '', '');
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'HasHtmlBody: ', ($email->HasHtmlBody() ? 1 : 0), "\n";

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