Node.js

Make a Copy of an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into another Email object — message content, recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, and related items. This example copies an email and reads a couple of fields from the copy.

Background: A deep copy gives you an independent duplicate: changes to one object do not affect the other. This is handy for template-and-tweak workflows — build a base message once, copy it per recipient, then vary only the recipient or a few fields — without risk of one send's edits bleeding into the next.

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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into
    //  another Email object -- message content, recipients, headers, bodies, attachments, and
    //  related items.

    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    email.Subject = "Original";
    email.From = "alice@example.com";
    email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com");
    email.Body = "Original body.";

    //  Copy the entire email into a new Email object.
    var copy = new chilkat.Email();

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

    console.log("Copy subject: " + copy.Subject);
    console.log("Copy NumTo: " + copy.NumTo);

}

chilkatExample();