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Get an Email's MIME into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message (headers, body representations, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData object. This example builds a message, serializes it to a BinData, and prints the byte count.

Background: A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the MIME as binary rather than text — for example to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API that expects a byte buffer. It is the binary counterpart to GetMime (string) and GetMimeSb (StringBuilder).

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message
#  (headers, bodies, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData
#  object.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "GetMimeBd example"
$email.From = "alice@example.com"
$email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
$email.Body = "Hello!"

#  Append the complete MIME to a BinData object.
$bdMime = New-Object Chilkat.BinData
$success = $email.GetMimeBd($bdMime)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("MIME size (bytes) = " + $bdMime.NumBytes)