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Fetch a POP3 Message's Raw MIME by UIDL

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.FetchMimeBd method, which fetches an email from the POP3 server by UIDL and stores the raw MIME source bytes in a BinData. Chilkat clears the BinData before downloading. This example fetches one message's MIME into a BinData.

Background: Sometimes you want the message exactly as it arrived — the raw MIME bytes — rather than a parsed Email object, for example to archive it verbatim as a .eml file, forward it untouched, or hash it. Fetching into a BinData preserves every byte precisely, without any parsing or re-encoding that could alter the original.

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<?php

$success = 0;

//  Demonstrates the MailMan.FetchMimeBd method, which fetches an email from the POP3 server
//  by UIDL and stores the raw MIME source bytes in a BinData.  Chilkat clears the BinData
//  before downloading.

$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan");

//  Configure the POP3 server connection.
$mailman->MailHost = 'pop.example.com';
$mailman->MailPort = 995;
$mailman->PopSsl = 1;
$mailman->PopUsername = 'user@example.com';
$mailman->PopPassword = 'myPassword';

//  Fetch the raw MIME of a specific message by UIDL into a BinData.
$bdMime = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");

$success = $mailman->FetchMimeBd('0000000123abcdef',$bdMime);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

//  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.

?>