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Create a Reply Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and body fields so it can be sent as a reply. Attachments are excluded from the reply, but attached messages are included. The source email is not modified. This example creates a reply and prints its MIME.

Background: Replying is more than swapping sender and recipient: the To is set from the original's reply address, the subject gets an Re: prefix, the original text is quoted, and threading headers (In-Reply-To, References) are added so mail clients group the conversation. ToReply assembles all of that, leaving a message you can edit and send. Dropping attachments is the usual reply convention — you rarely echo the sender's files back to them.

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Local $bSuccess = False

;  Demonstrates the ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and
;  body fields ready to send as a reply.  Attachments are excluded from the reply, but
;  attached messages are included.  The source email is not modified.

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
$oEmail.Subject = "Project update"
$oEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
$oEmail.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
$oEmail.Body = "Here is the project update."

;  Create a reply email based on this message.
$oReply = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")

$bSuccess = $oEmail.ToReply($oReply)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  The reply is addressed and quoted, ready to edit and send.
ConsoleWrite($oReply.GetMime() & @CRLF)