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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Dim email As New Chilkat.Email()

'  Load an email from a .eml
Dim success As Boolean
success = email.LoadEml("something.eml")
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox(email.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Display the default Body:
TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.Body & vbCrLf

'  If a plain-text body is present, display it:
Dim bText As Boolean
bText = email.HasPlainTextBody()
If (bText) Then
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.GetPlainTextBody() & vbCrLf
End If



'  If an HTML body is present, display the HTML source:
Dim bHtml As Boolean
bHtml = email.HasHtmlBody()
If (bHtml) Then
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.GetHtmlBody() & vbCrLf
End If