Classic ASP

Set an Email Body with a Content-Type

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetTextBody method, which sets the body of the email and also sets the Content-Type header field to the value in the second argument (a textual MIME type such as text/plain or text/html). If the email is already multipart/alternative, an alternative with the given content type is added, or replaced if one already exists. This example sets a plain-text body.

Background: SetTextBody is the general body-setter where you name the MIME type, making it flexible for building multipart/alternative messages one representation at a time. When your goal is specifically a plain-text/HTML pair, the dedicated methods — SetHtmlBody with AddPlainTextAlternativeBody, or AddHtmlAlternativeBody — express the intended alternative structure more clearly.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
'  Demonstrates the SetTextBody method, which sets the body of the email and also sets the
'  Content-Type header field to the value in the second argument (a textual MIME type such
'  as text/plain or text/html).  If the email is already multipart/alternative, an
'  alternative with the given Content-Type is added (or replaced if one already exists).

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

'  Set a plain-text body with Content-Type text/plain.
email.SetTextBody "This is the plain-text body of the message.","text/plain"

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "HasPlainTextBody: " & email.HasPlainTextBody()) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.GetMime()) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>