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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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Dim success As Boolean = 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.
Dim source As New Chilkat.Email
source.Subject = "Source message"
source.From = "alice@example.com"
source.Body = "Hello from a BinData."
Dim bdMime As New Chilkat.BinData
source.GetMimeBd(bdMime)

'  Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email

success = email.SetFromMimeBd(bdMime)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Debug.WriteLine("Loaded subject: " & email.Subject)