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Append Text to an Email Body

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AppendToBody method, which appends additional text to the email's existing plain-text body rather than replacing it. This example sets an initial body and then appends more text.

Background: Setting the body (via Body or SetTextBody) replaces whatever was there, while AppendToBody adds to it. That is convenient when a message body is assembled in pieces — for example a greeting, then dynamically generated lines, then a signature — without having to concatenate the whole string yourself before assigning it.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the AppendToBody method, which appends additional text to the email's
-- existing plain-text body.

local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "AppendToBody example"

-- Set an initial body.
email:set_text_body("First line.", "text/plain")

-- Append more text to the existing body.
email:append_to_body(" Appended text.")

print("Body = " .. email.body)