Email Body - Plain Text and/or HTML

Any given email may have a plain-text body, an HTML body, or both. The Body property will return the HTML body by default (if it exists) otherwise it will return the plain-text body. There are methods for checking to see if an email has a particular body (HasPlainTextBody and HasHtmlBody) and there are methods for getting a specific body: GetHtmlBody, GetPlainTextBody.

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import sys
import chilkat

email = chilkat.CkEmail()

#  Load an email from a .eml

success = email.LoadEml("something.eml")
if (success != True):
    print email.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Display the default Body:
print email.body()

#  If a plain-text body is present, display it:

bText = email.HasPlainTextBody()
if (bText):
    print email.getPlainTextBody()

#  If an HTML body is present, display the HTML source:

bHtml = email.HasHtmlBody()
if (bHtml):
    print email.getHtmlBody()