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Get the Decoded MIME Body Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetBodyDecoded method, which returns the decoded body as text. It takes no arguments. Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.

Note: The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background: This gives you the actual, human-readable content of a text part — the two-step decode (transfer encoding, then charset) is exactly what a mail client does to display it. Use it for text parts; for binary content such as an image, decode to bytes with GetBodyBd instead, since forcing binary through a text decode would corrupt it.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

Dim mime As New Chilkat.Mime
success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/message.eml")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(mime.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Return the body as decoded text.  Chilkat first reverses the Content-Transfer-Encoding (Base64
//  or quoted-printable) and then interprets the bytes according to the declared charset.
Dim bodyText As String
bodyText = mime.GetBodyDecoded()
If (mime.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(mime.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog(bodyText)