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Save an Email to a .eml File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to a file. An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message — headers, bodies, related items, and attachments. This example builds a message and saves it.

Background: Saving as .eml writes the message in the universal MIME format that virtually every mail client can open, making it ideal for archiving, sharing, or handing a message to another program. It is the counterpart to LoadEml. A saved .eml also retains Chilkat's CKX- metadata headers (a way to store your own metadata with the email; they are always stripped before an email is sent), so .eml is the recommended way to persist a message even within Chilkat-based software. A separate Chilkat XML format (SaveXml) exists as an alternative, but offers no metadata advantage over .eml.

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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Email

li_Success = 0

//  Demonstrates the SaveEml method, which converts the email object to EML and saves it to
//  a file.  An EML file contains the complete RFC822/MIME message, including headers,
//  bodies, related items, and attachments.

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 = "Save as EML"
loo_Email.From = "alice@example.com"
loo_Email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
loo_Email.Body = "Hello, this message will be saved as a .eml file."

//  Save the email to a .eml file.
li_Success = loo_Email.SaveEml("qa_output/message.eml")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Email.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Email
    return
end if

Write-Debug "Saved to message.eml."

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


destroy loo_Email