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Save an Email to a .eml File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to a file. An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message — headers, bodies, related items, and attachments. This example builds a message and saves it.

Background: Saving as .eml writes the message in the universal MIME format that virtually every mail client can open, making it ideal for archiving, sharing, or handing a message to another program. It is the counterpart to LoadEml. A saved .eml also retains Chilkat's CKX- metadata headers (a way to store your own metadata with the email; they are always stripped before an email is sent), so .eml is the recommended way to persist a message even within Chilkat-based software. A separate Chilkat XML format (SaveXml) exists as an alternative, but offers no metadata advantage over .eml.

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<?php

$success = 0;

//  Demonstrates the SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to
//  a file.  An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message, including headers,
//  bodies, related items, and attachments.

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'Save as EML';
$email->From = 'alice@example.com';
$email->AddTo('Bob','bob@example.com');
$email->Body = 'Hello, this message will be saved as a .eml file.';

//  Save the email to a .eml file.
$success = $email->SaveEml('qa_output/message.eml');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Saved to message.eml.' . "\n";

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

?>