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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

$success = 0;

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

$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

$imap->Ssl = 1;
$imap->Port = 993;

$success = $imap->Connect('imap.example.com');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->Login('user@example.com','myPassword');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Download message sequence number 1's MIME bytes into a BinData.  bUid = 0.
$bdMime = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $imap->FetchSingleBd(1,0,$bdMime);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

$success = $imap->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}


?>