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Get the Complete MIME Header of an Email
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Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.Header property, which returns the complete MIME header generated from the current in-memory email object. Because this property is read-only, you modify individual fields through their corresponding properties or header methods rather than assigning to Header directly. This example sets a subject, from, and recipient, then prints the full MIME header.
Background: A MIME email is made of two parts separated by a single blank line: the header and the body. The header is a list of
Field-Name: value lines — familiar ones include From, To, Subject, and Date, plus structural fields like Content-Type and MIME-Version. Reading the raw header is useful for debugging exactly what a message will look like on the wire.Chilkat VBScript Downloads
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)
' Demonstrates the read-only Email.Header property, which returns the
' complete MIME header of the email, generated from the current in-memory
' email object.
set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Test subject"
email.From = "mary@example.com"
success = email.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")
' Header is read-only. Modify individual fields through their properties
' or header methods rather than assigning to Header.
outFile.WriteLine(email.Header)
outFile.Close