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Send MIME Bytes from a BinData via SMTP

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.SendMimeBd method, which sends an email from caller-supplied MIME bytes held in a BinData. The arguments are the from address, the recipient list (the SMTP envelope recipients), and the BinData containing the MIME. This example loads a .eml file into a BinData and sends it.

Important: When sending caller-supplied MIME, ensure the Message-ID header is unique for each message. Sending MIME whose Message-ID was previously used can cause the message to be silently discarded as a duplicate by mail servers — see chilkatsoft.com/email_duplicate_message_id.asp.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to SendMime (which takes MIME as a string). Working from a BinData is the right choice when the message's raw bytes come straight from a file, a database blob, or a network stream — it delivers them byte-for-byte with no charset conversion that could alter the original, which matters because MIME can carry binary transfer encodings.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;
use Chilkat2\MailMan;

// Demonstrates the MailMan.SendMimeBd method, which sends an email from caller-supplied MIME
// bytes held in a BinData.  The arguments are the from address, the recipient list (the SMTP
// envelope recipients), and the BinData containing the MIME.

$mailman = new MailMan();

// Configure the SMTP server connection.
$mailman->SmtpHost = 'smtp.example.com';
$mailman->SmtpPort = 465;
$mailman->SmtpSsl = true;
$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'user@example.com';
$mailman->SmtpPassword = 'myPassword';

// Load the MIME bytes to send.  Here we read a .eml file, but the bytes could come from
// any source.
$bdMime = new BinData();
try {
    $bdMime->LoadFile('qa_data/eml/message.eml');

    // IMPORTANT: When sending caller-supplied MIME, make sure the Message-ID header is unique
    // for each message.  Sending MIME that contains a Message-ID that was previously sent can
    // cause the message to be silently discarded as a duplicate by mail servers.  For details,
    // see: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/email_duplicate_message_id.asp

    // Send the MIME bytes to the envelope recipient(s).
    $mailman->SendMimeBd('alice@example.com', 'bob@example.com', $bdMime);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo "MIME email sent.\n";

// Note: The path "qa_data/eml/message.eml" is a relative local filesystem path,
// relative to the current working directory of the running application.

// Note: Explicitly connecting/authenticating is optional.  Chilkat MailMan automatically
// connects and authenticates -- using the property settings above -- whenever a server
// operation requires it.  Calling the explicit connect/authenticate methods can still be
// helpful to determine whether a failure occurs while connecting or while authenticating.