(PowerShell) Create Email with Non-Standard Binary Body

Creates an email where the only body is a binary WAV file. The technique used in the example could be applied to other binary files, such as PDF, MS-WORD docs, Excel docs, etc.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$mime = New-Object Chilkat.Mime

$success = $mime.SetBodyFromFile("VoiceMessage.wav")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($mime.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# The MIME has this header:
# Content-Disposition: attachment;
# 	 filename="VoiceMessage.wav"
# Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
# Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
# 	name="VoiceMessage.wav"

# We don't want the content-disposition to be an
# attachment -- otherwise the email object will self-correct
# and put it in a multipart/mixed format...
$mime.Disposition = ""
$mime.Filename = ""

$strMime = $mime.GetMime()
$($strMime)

# Now load it into an email object:
$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$success = $email.SetFromMimeText($strMime)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Add subject, TO, FROM, etc.
$email.Subject = "This is a test"
$email.From = "support@chilkatsoft.com"
$success = $email.AddTo("Matt","matt@chilkatsoft.com")

# Your email is ready to send.
# (but for this example, we'll simply save it to a file...)
$success = $email.SaveEml("email.eml")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("OK!")