Create MIME Containing Plain-Text

Calls SetBodyFromPlainText to load plain-text into the MIME body. Also sets the Content-Type header to "text/plain", and the Content-Transfer-Encoding to an appropriate transfer encoding based on the characters found in the text.

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require 'rubygems'
require 'chilkat'

mime = Chilkat::CkMime.new()

success = mime.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial.")
if (success == false)
    print mime.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Add a few header fields:
mime.AddHeaderField("Description","this is a test")
mime.AddHeaderField("MyId","123")

textBody = "This is the plain-text body"

mime.SetBodyFromPlainText(textBody)

print mime.getMime() + "\n";

#  The MIME should look like this:
#  
Description: this is a test
MyId: 123
Content-Type: text/plain; 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is the plain-text body

#  Note: The Content-Transfer-Encoding may be changed.
#  For example, to use "base64", do this:
mime.put_Encoding("base64")

#  Show the MIME again, this time using the base64
#  transfer encoding:
print mime.getMime() + "\n";

#  It should look like this:
#  
Description: this is a test
MyId: 123
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

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