Remove the Plain-Text Body from an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.RemovePlainTextAlternative method, which removes the plain-text body from the email if one exists. Other body representations, attachments, and related items remain unchanged. This example builds a message with both plain-text and HTML alternatives, then removes the plain text.

Background: This is the counterpart to RemoveHtmlAlternative. Removing the plain-text alternative leaves an HTML-only message. Note that dropping the plain-text fallback is generally discouraged for real mail — it hurts accessibility and can raise spam scores — but it is occasionally needed when a downstream system expects a single HTML representation.

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//  Demonstrates the RemovePlainTextAlternative method, which removes the plain-text body
//  from the email (if one exists).  Other body representations, attachments, and related
//  items remain.

Chilkat.Email email = new Chilkat.Email();
email.Subject = "Remove plain-text alternative";

//  Create an email with both plain-text and HTML alternatives.
email.SetTextBody("This is the plain-text version.","text/plain");
email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML version.</body></html>");
Debug.WriteLine("NumAlternatives before = " + Convert.ToString(email.NumAlternatives));
Debug.WriteLine("HasPlainTextBody before: " + Convert.ToString(email.HasPlainTextBody()));

//  Remove the plain-text body, leaving the HTML alternative.
email.RemovePlainTextAlternative();
Debug.WriteLine("NumAlternatives after = " + Convert.ToString(email.NumAlternatives));
Debug.WriteLine("HasPlainTextBody after: " + Convert.ToString(email.HasPlainTextBody()));