PowerShell

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.

Chilkat PowerShell Downloads

Download Chilkat for PowerShell

PowerShell

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

$success = $false

#  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.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Save as EML"
$email.From = "alice@example.com"
$email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
$email.Body = "Hello, this message will be saved as a .eml file."

#  Save the email to a .eml file.
$success = $email.SaveEml("qa_output/message.eml")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("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.