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Get the Decoded MIME Body Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetBodyDecoded method, which returns the decoded body as text. It takes no arguments. Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.

Note: The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background: This gives you the actual, human-readable content of a text part — the two-step decode (transfer encoding, then charset) is exactly what a mail client does to display it. Use it for text parts; for binary content such as an image, decode to bytes with GetBodyBd instead, since forcing binary through a text decode would corrupt it.

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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Mime
string ls_BodyText

li_Success = 0

loo_Mime = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Mime.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Mime")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Mime
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
li_Success = loo_Mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/message.eml")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Mime.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Mime
    return
end if

//  Return the body as decoded text.  Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding (Base64
//  or quoted-printable) and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.
ls_BodyText = loo_Mime.GetBodyDecoded()
if loo_Mime.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Mime.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Mime
    return
end if

Write-Debug ls_BodyText


destroy loo_Mime