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Add a Plain-Text Alternative Body to an Email
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody method, which adds a plain-text alternative body. Combined with an HTML body, it produces a multipart/alternative email that carries both representations. This example sets an HTML body, adds a plain-text alternative, and prints the alternative count.
Background: This is the companion to
AddHtmlAlternativeBody. A polished email provides both an HTML body (for rich display) and a plain-text fallback, and the receiving client picks whichever it prefers. Including a real plain-text alternative — rather than letting the HTML stand alone — improves accessibility, helps with spam scoring, and guarantees the message is readable in text-only environments.Chilkat Visual FoxPro Downloads
LOCAL loEmail
* Demonstrates the AddPlainTextAlternativeBody method, which adds a plain-text alternative
* body. Combined with an HTML body, this produces a multipart/alternative email offering
* both representations of the same content.
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "HTML with a plain-text alternative"
* Set an HTML body.
loEmail.SetHtmlBody("<html><body><b>This is the HTML version.</b></body></html>")
* Add a plain-text alternative.
loEmail.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("This is the plain-text version.")
? "NumAlternatives = " + STR(loEmail.NumAlternatives)
RELEASE loEmail