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Load an Email from a .eml File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadEml method, which loads a complete email from an .eml file. An EML file contains RFC822/MIME message text. On success, the loaded message replaces the entire current email — recipients, headers, bodies, related items, and attachments. This example loads an EML and reads its subject and from.

Background: .eml is the standard on-disk format for a single email — it is simply the raw MIME saved to a file, which most mail clients can export and open. LoadEml parses that MIME into a fully populated Email object, giving you programmatic access to every part. It is the natural counterpart to SaveEml.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  Demonstrates the LoadEml method, which loads a complete email from an .eml file (an EML
//  file contains RFC822/MIME message text).  On success, the loaded message replaces the
//  entire current email.

$email = new CkEmail();

$success = $email->LoadEml('qa_data/eml/message.eml');
if ($success == false) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Subject: ' . $email->subject() . "\n";
print 'From: ' . $email->from() . "\n";

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

?>