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Load an Email from MIME in a StringBuilder

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

Background: This is the StringBuilder counterpart to SetFromMimeText. When the MIME already lives in a StringBuilder — perhaps assembled or edited there — passing it directly avoids converting to an intermediate string, which is more efficient for large messages.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeSb method, which loads an email from MIME text stored in a
'  StringBuilder object.  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

'  Build a source email and get its MIME into a StringBuilder.
Dim source As New Chilkat.Email
source.Subject = "Source message"
source.From = "alice@example.com"
source.Body = "Hello from a StringBuilder."
Dim sbMime As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
source.GetMimeSb(sbMime)

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

success = email.SetFromMimeSb(sbMime)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


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