Render an Email to MIME Without Sending

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Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.RenderToMime method, which renders an Email object as the MIME text that would be sent to the SMTP server, without actually sending it. This example builds a message and prints the rendered MIME.

//  Demonstrates the MailMan.RenderToMime method, which renders an Email object as the MIME
//  text that would be sent to the SMTP server, without actually sending the email.

Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan

//  Build the email to render.
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "Rendered email"
email.From = "alice@example.com"
Dim success As Boolean
success = email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.Body = "This message is rendered to MIME, not sent."

//  Render to MIME (no connection to the SMTP server is made).
Dim mime As String
mime = mailman.RenderToMime(email)
System.DebugLog(mime)

//  Sample output:
//  
//    MIME-Version: 1.0
//    Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:25:42 -0500
//    Message-ID: <E13F164829E44779462366BF1D8020CA210F8F1F@CHILKAT25>
//    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
//    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
//    X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
//    Subject: Rendered email
//    From: alice@example.com
//    To: Bob <bob@example.com>
//  
//    This message is rendered to MIME, not sent.
//  
//  Note: The Date header is automatically added with the current date/time, and a unique
//  Message-ID header is generated and added.  The other headers (Content-Type,
//  Content-Transfer-Encoding, X-Priority, and MIME-Version) have the same values you would
//  see with Email.GetMime.