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Load an Email from MIME Text in a String

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as the contents of a .eml file) held in a string. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email to MIME with GetMime, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the in-memory (string) counterpart to LoadEml, which reads MIME from a file. It is handy when the raw message text arrives from somewhere other than the filesystem — a database column, an HTTP response, or a message queue — letting you parse it straight into a fully populated Email object.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

//  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeText method, which loads the email from MIME text (such as
//  the contents of a .eml file) held in a string.  On success, it replaces the entire
//  current email.

//  Build a source email and get its MIME text.
Dim source As New Chilkat.Email
source.Subject = "Source message"
source.From = "alice@example.com"
source.Body = "Hello from MIME text."
Dim mimeText As String
mimeText = source.GetMime()

//  Load a new email object from the MIME text.
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
success = email.SetFromMimeText(mimeText)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Loaded subject: " + email.Subject)