Classic ASP

Get Each Alternative Body of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAlternativeBody method, which returns the Nth alternative body. The NumAlternatives property gives the number of alternatives, and indexes are zero-based. This example builds a message with plain-text and HTML alternatives and prints each one.

Background: A multipart/alternative email carries the same content in several forms — commonly plain text and HTML. Enumerating them by index lets you pull out exactly the representation you need: showing the HTML in a rich viewer, extracting the plain text for search or indexing, or comparing the two. Pair this with GetAlternativeContentType to learn what each indexed body actually is.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
'  Demonstrates the GetAlternativeBody method, which returns the Nth alternative body.
'  The NumAlternatives property gives the number of alternatives; indexes are zero-based.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

'  Create an email with plain-text and HTML alternatives.
email.SetTextBody "This is the plain-text alternative.","text/plain"
success = email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML alternative.</body></html>")

n = email.NumAlternatives

For i = 0 To n - 1
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "---- Alternative " & i & " ----") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.GetAlternativeBody(i)) & "</pre>"
Next

%>
</body>
</html>