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Get an Email's MIME into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message (headers, body representations, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData object. This example builds a message, serializes it to a BinData, and prints the byte count.

Background: A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the MIME as binary rather than text — for example to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API that expects a byte buffer. It is the binary counterpart to GetMime (string) and GetMimeSb (StringBuilder).

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<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;
use Chilkat2\Email;

// Demonstrates the GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message
// (headers, bodies, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData
// object.

$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'GetMimeBd example';
$email->From = 'alice@example.com';
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body = 'Hello!';

// Append the complete MIME to a BinData object.
$bdMime = new BinData();
try {
    $email->GetMimeBd($bdMime);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo 'MIME size (bytes) = ', $bdMime->NumBytes, "\n";