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Get an Email's MIME into a BinData

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message (headers, body representations, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData object. This example builds a message, serializes it to a BinData, and prints the byte count.

Background: A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the MIME as binary rather than text — for example to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API that expects a byte buffer. It is the binary counterpart to GetMime (string) and GetMimeSb (StringBuilder).

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

//  Demonstrates the GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message
//  (headers, bodies, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData
//  object.

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "GetMimeBd example"
email.From = "alice@example.com"
success = email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.Body = "Hello!"

//  Append the complete MIME to a BinData object.
Dim bdMime As New Chilkat.BinData
success = email.GetMimeBd(bdMime)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("MIME size (bytes) = " + Str(bdMime.NumBytes))