Perl

Load an Email from MIME in a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from the MIME stored in a BinData object. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email into a BinData with GetMimeBd, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to SetFromMimeText and SetFromMimeSb. When a message's raw MIME arrives as bytes — read from a file, a socket, or a database blob into a BinData — loading it directly avoids any lossy or awkward byte-to-text conversion, which matters because MIME can carry binary transfer encodings.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from MIME stored in a BinData
# object.  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

# Build a source email and serialize its MIME into a BinData.
my $source = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$source->Subject('Source message');
$source->From('alice@example.com');
$source->Body('Hello from a BinData.');
my $bdMime = Chilkat2::BinData->new;
$source->GetMimeBd($bdMime);

# Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;

my $success = $email->SetFromMimeBd($bdMime);
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

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