Ruby

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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require 'chilkat'

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 = Chilkat::CkMailMan.new()

#  Build the email to render.
email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("Rendered email")
email.put_From("alice@example.com")
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.put_Body("This message is rendered to MIME bytes in a BinData.")

#  Render the MIME into a BinData.
bdMime = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()

success = mailman.RenderToMimeBd(email,bdMime)
if (success == false)
    print mailman.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Rendered MIME size (bytes) = " + bdMime.get_NumBytes().to_s() + "\n";