JavaScript

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.

Note

This example is intended for running within a Chilkat.Js embedded JavaScript engine. All Chilkat JavaScript examples require Chilkat v11.4.0 or greater.

JavaScript

var success = 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.

var email = new CkEmail();
email.Subject = "Project update";
email.From = "alice@example.com";
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com");
email.Body = "Here is the project update.";

//  Create a reply email based on this message.
var reply = new CkEmail();

success = email.ToReply(reply);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(email.LastErrorText);
    return true;
}

//  The reply is addressed and quoted, ready to edit and send.
console.log(reply.GetMime());