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Load an Email from MIME in a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from the MIME stored in a BinData object. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email into a BinData with GetMimeBd, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to SetFromMimeText and SetFromMimeSb. When a message's raw MIME arrives as bytes — read from a file, a socket, or a database blob into a BinData — loading it directly avoids any lossy or awkward byte-to-text conversion, which matters because MIME can carry binary transfer encodings.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

#  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from MIME stored in a BinData
#  object.  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

#  Build a source email and serialize its MIME into a BinData.
source = chilkat.CkEmail()
source.put_Subject("Source message")
source.put_From("alice@example.com")
source.put_Body("Hello from a BinData.")
bdMime = chilkat.CkBinData()
source.GetMimeBd(bdMime)

#  Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
email = chilkat.CkEmail()

success = email.SetFromMimeBd(bdMime)
if (success == False):
    print(email.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("Loaded subject: " + email.subject())