Visual FoxPro

Load an Email Body from a File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file. The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes. This example loads a plain-text body as utf-8.

Background: Message bodies are often authored and stored as separate files — a marketing team might maintain an HTML template, or a script might generate a text body on the fly. LoadBodyFromFile reads such a file straight into the email, with the isHtml flag telling Chilkat whether to treat it as an HTML or plain-text body and the charset ensuring non-ASCII characters decode correctly.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file.
*  The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a
*  plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Body loaded from a file"

*  Load a plain-text body (isHtml = false) using the utf-8 charset.
lnSuccess = loEmail.LoadBodyFromFile("qa_data/txt/body.txt",0,"utf-8")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? loEmail.Body

*  Note: The path "qa_data/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
*  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

RELEASE loEmail