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Visual Basic 6.0

Get the Decoded MIME Body Text

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetBodyDecoded method, which returns the decoded body as text. It takes no arguments. Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.

Note: The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background: This gives you the actual, human-readable content of a text part — the two-step decode (transfer encoding, then charset) is exactly what a mail client does to display it. Use it for text parts; for binary content such as an image, decode to bytes with GetBodyBd instead, since forcing binary through a text decode would corrupt it.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim mime As New ChilkatMime
success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/message.eml")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print mime.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Return the body as decoded text.  Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding (Base64
'  or quoted-printable) and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.
Dim bodyText As String
bodyText = mime.GetBodyDecoded()
If (mime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print mime.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print bodyText