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Render an Email to MIME Bytes in a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME bytes and appends the result to a BinData, without sending the email. This example renders a message into a BinData and prints the byte count.

Background: This is the binary version of RenderToMime. A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the rendered MIME as binary — to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API expecting a byte buffer — rather than as text.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  Demonstrates the MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME
//  bytes and appends the result to a BinData (without sending the email).

$mailman = new CkMailMan();

//  Build the email to render.
$email = new CkEmail();
$email->put_Subject('Rendered email');
$email->put_From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo('Bob','bob@example.com');
$email->put_Body('This message is rendered to MIME bytes in a BinData.');

//  Render the MIME into a BinData.
$bdMime = new CkBinData();

$success = $mailman->RenderToMimeBd($email,$bdMime);
if ($success == false) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

?>