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Render an Email to MIME Bytes in a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME bytes and appends the result to a BinData, without sending the email. This example renders a message into a BinData and prints the byte count.

Background: This is the binary version of RenderToMime. A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the rendered MIME as binary — to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API expecting a byte buffer — rather than as text.

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

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the MailMan.RenderToMimeBd method, which renders an Email object as MIME
#  bytes and appends the result to a BinData (without sending the email).

$mailman = New-Object Chilkat.MailMan

#  Build the email to render.
$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Rendered email"
$email.From = "alice@example.com"
$email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
$email.Body = "This message is rendered to MIME bytes in a BinData."

#  Render the MIME into a BinData.
$bdMime = New-Object Chilkat.BinData

$success = $mailman.RenderToMimeBd($email,$bdMime)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($mailman.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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