Check Whether an Email Has a Plain-Text Body

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.HasPlainTextBody method, which returns true only when a text/plain body is present in the current email object. This example sets a plain-text body and confirms its presence.

Background: The plain-text body is the fallback representation used when HTML is unavailable or unwanted — and the form usually preferred for search, indexing, and accessibility. HasPlainTextBody is the counterpart to HasHtmlBody; testing both lets a program handle every combination (text-only, HTML-only, both, or neither) gracefully.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;

    //  Demonstrates the HasPlainTextBody method, which returns true only when a text/plain body
    //  is present in the current email object.

    email = CkEmail_Create();
    CkEmail_putSubject(email,"HasPlainTextBody example");

    CkEmail_SetTextBody(email,"Hello, this is the plain-text body.","text/plain");

    if (CkEmail_HasPlainTextBody(email) == TRUE) {
        printf("The email has a plain-text body.\n");
    }
    else {
        printf("The email does not have a plain-text body.\n");
    }



    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }