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Get the Complete MIME Header of an Email

Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.Header property, which returns the complete MIME header generated from the current in-memory email object. Because this property is read-only, you modify individual fields through their corresponding properties or header methods rather than assigning to Header directly. This example sets a subject, from, and recipient, then prints the full MIME header.

Background: A MIME email is made of two parts separated by a single blank line: the header and the body. The header is a list of Field-Name: value lines — familiar ones include From, To, Subject, and Date, plus structural fields like Content-Type and MIME-Version. Reading the raw header is useful for debugging exactly what a message will look like on the wire.

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integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Email

//  Demonstrates the read-only Email.Header property, which returns the
//  complete MIME header of the email, generated from the current in-memory
//  email object.

loo_Email = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Email.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Email
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

loo_Email.Subject = "Test subject"
loo_Email.From = "mary@example.com"
loo_Email.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")

//  Header is read-only.  Modify individual fields through their properties
//  or header methods rather than assigning to Header.
Write-Debug loo_Email.Header


destroy loo_Email