Classic ASP

Load an Email Body from a File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file. The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes. This example loads a plain-text body as utf-8.

Background: Message bodies are often authored and stored as separate files — a marketing team might maintain an HTML template, or a script might generate a text body on the fly. LoadBodyFromFile reads such a file straight into the email, with the isHtml flag telling Chilkat whether to treat it as an HTML or plain-text body and the charset ensuring non-ASCII characters decode correctly.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file.
'  The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a
'  plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Body loaded from a file"

'  Load a plain-text body (isHtml = false) using the utf-8 charset.
success = email.LoadBodyFromFile("qa_data/txt/body.txt",0,"utf-8")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Body) & "</pre>"

'  Note: The path "qa_data/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
'  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

%>
</body>
</html>