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Fetch an IMAP Message's MIME into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.FetchSingleBd method, which downloads one message's MIME bytes into a BinData object. If the second argument (bUid) is true, the first argument is a UID; otherwise it is a sequence number. This example downloads message 1's MIME into a BinData and prints the byte count.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to FetchSingleAsMime (which returns a string). A BinData holds raw bytes, so it preserves the message exactly — the right choice when you plan to write the MIME straight to a file, hash it, or hand it to an API expecting a byte buffer, with no charset conversion that could alter binary content.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;
use Chilkat2\Imap;

// Demonstrates the Imap.FetchSingleBd method, which downloads one message's MIME bytes into a
// BinData object.  If the 2nd argument (bUid) is true, the 1st argument is a UID; otherwise
// it is a sequence number.

$imap = new Imap();

$imap->Ssl = true;
$imap->Port = 993;

try {
    $imap->Connect('imap.example.com');

    $imap->Login('user@example.com', 'myPassword');

    $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');

    // Download message sequence number 1's MIME bytes into a BinData.  bUid = false.
    $bdMime = new BinData();
    $imap->FetchSingleBd(1, false, $bdMime);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

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

try {
    $imap->Disconnect();
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}