Perl

Load an Email from MIME Text in a String

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as the contents of a .eml file) held in a string. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email to MIME with GetMime, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the in-memory (string) counterpart to LoadEml, which reads MIME from a file. It is handy when the raw message text arrives from somewhere other than the filesystem — a database column, an HTTP response, or a message queue — letting you parse it straight into a fully populated Email object.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as
# the contents of a .eml file) held in a string.  On success, it replaces the entire
# current email.

# Build a source email and get its MIME text.
my $source = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$source->Subject('Source message');
$source->From('alice@example.com');
$source->Body('Hello from MIME text.');
my $mimeText = $source->GetMime();

# Load a new email object from the MIME text.
my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
my $success = $email->SetFromMimeText($mimeText);
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

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