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Load an Email from a .eml File

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadEml method, which loads a complete email from an .eml file. An EML file contains RFC822/MIME message text. On success, the loaded message replaces the entire current email — recipients, headers, bodies, related items, and attachments. This example loads an EML and reads its subject and from.

Background: .eml is the standard on-disk format for a single email — it is simply the raw MIME saved to a file, which most mail clients can export and open. LoadEml parses that MIME into a fully populated Email object, giving you programmatic access to every part. It is the natural counterpart to SaveEml.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    --  Demonstrates the LoadEml method, which loads a complete email from an .eml file (an EML
    --  file contains RFC822/MIME message text).  On success, the loaded message replaces the
    --  entire current email.

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'LoadEml', @success OUT, 'qa_data/eml/message.eml'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        RETURN
      END


    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'Subject', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'Subject: ' + @sTmp0

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'From', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'From: ' + @sTmp0

    --  Note: The path "qa_data/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
    --  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email


END
GO