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Load an Email from MIME Text in a String

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as the contents of a .eml file) held in a string. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email to MIME with GetMime, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the in-memory (string) counterpart to LoadEml, which reads MIME from a file. It is handy when the raw message text arrives from somewhere other than the filesystem — a database column, an HTTP response, or a message queue — letting you parse it straight into a fully populated Email object.

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<?php

$success = 0;

//  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as
//  the contents of a .eml file) held in a string.  On success, it replaces the entire
//  current email.

//  Build a source email and get its MIME text.
$source = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$source->Subject = 'Source message';
$source->From = 'alice@example.com';
$source->Body = 'Hello from MIME text.';
$mimeText = $source->getMime();

//  Load a new email object from the MIME text.
$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$success = $email->SetFromMimeText($mimeText);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Loaded subject: ' . $email->Subject . "\n";

?>