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Set a MIME Body from Plain Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromPlainText method, which sets the body as plain text. The only argument is the text. For ASCII input Chilkat uses text/plain with 7bit encoding; for non-ASCII it selects an appropriate charset and encoding.

Background: This is the simplest way to give a MIME entity a text body — Chilkat picks a sensible Content-Type and transfer encoding for you based on the content. Plain ASCII stays as 7bit with no charset, while text containing accented or non-Latin characters gets a charset (typically UTF-8) and a suitable encoding so it survives transmission intact. It is the text counterpart to SetBodyFromHtml and SetBodyFromXml.

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var
success: Integer;
mime: TChilkatMime;
mimeText: WideString;

begin
success := 0;

//  Demonstrates the Mime.SetBodyFromPlainText method, which sets the body as plain text.  The only
//  argument is the text.  For ASCII, Chilkat sets Content-Type: text/plain and a 7bit transfer
//  encoding; for non-ASCII it selects an appropriate charset and encoding.

mime := TChilkatMime.Create(Self);

success := mime.SetBodyFromPlainText('Hello, this is a plain-text message body.');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(mime.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

mimeText := mime.GetMime();
if (mime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(mime.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add(mimeText);