Classic ASP

Clear an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Clear method, which removes the current message content — recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded messages — leaving an empty email object. This example builds a message with a recipient and attachment, clears it, and prints the counts before and after.

Background: Reusing a single Email object across many operations is efficient, but leftover state from a previous message could leak into the next. Clear resets the object completely, giving you a clean slate — the safe way to start a fresh message without allocating a new object.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
'  Demonstrates the Clear method, which removes the current message content, including
'  recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded
'  messages -- leaving an empty email object.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "A message"
email.Body = "Some body text."
success = email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
success = email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "NumTo before clear = " & email.NumTo) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "NumAttachments before clear = " & email.NumAttachments) & "</pre>"

'  Remove all content, resetting the email object.
email.Clear 

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "NumTo after clear = " & email.NumTo) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "NumAttachments after clear = " & email.NumAttachments) & "</pre>"

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