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Render an Email to MIME Bytes in a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME bytes and appends the result to a BinData, without sending the email. This example renders a message into a BinData and prints the byte count.

Background: This is the binary version of RenderToMime. A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the rendered MIME as binary — to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API expecting a byte buffer — rather than as text.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;
use Chilkat2\Email;
use Chilkat2\MailMan;

// Demonstrates the MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME
// bytes and appends the result to a BinData (without sending the email).

$mailman = new MailMan();

// Build the email to render.
$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Rendered email';
$email->From = 'alice@example.com';
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body = 'This message is rendered to MIME bytes in a BinData.';

// Render the MIME into a BinData.
$bdMime = new BinData();

try {
    $mailman->RenderToMimeBd($email, $bdMime);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

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