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Create a Reply Email

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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.

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function chilkatExample() {

    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 chilkat.Email();
    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 chilkat.Email();

    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());

}

chilkatExample();