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Get the Full MIME of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments. The result is suitable for saving as a .eml file. This example builds a message and prints its MIME.

Background: MIME is the on-the-wire text format of an email — the exact bytes a mail server sends and receives. GetMime serializes the in-memory Email object into that format, assembling headers, encoding attachments as Base64, and adding the multipart boundaries that separate the parts. It is the natural way to persist a message (as .eml), inspect exactly what will be transmitted, or hand the message to another system.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// Demonstrates the GetMime method, which returns the email as RFC822/MIME text containing
// the headers, body representations, related items, and attachments.

$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'GetMime example';
$email->From = 'alice@example.com';
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body = 'Hello, this is the message body.';

// Get the complete RFC822/MIME text (suitable for saving as a .eml file).
echo $email->GetMime(), "\n";