Classic ASP

Get the Plain-Text Body of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the text/plain content type. It reads the plain-text representation already present in the email object rather than generating one from HTML. This example sets a plain-text body and reads it back.

Background: The plain-text body is the fallback representation of a message — the version shown when HTML can't or shouldn't be rendered, and the form usually preferred for search, indexing, and accessibility. GetPlainTextBody targets it specifically; if the message contains only HTML, this returns empty (check with HasPlainTextBody), so a robust extractor falls back to GetHtmlBody when needed.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
'  Demonstrates the GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the
'  text/plain content type.  It reads the plain-text representation already present in the
'  email object.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "GetPlainTextBody example"

email.SetTextBody "Hello, this is the plain-text body.","text/plain"

'  Retrieve the text/plain body.
plain = email.GetPlainTextBody()
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( plain) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>