Perl

Add a Plain-Text Alternative Body to an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody method, which adds a plain-text alternative body. Combined with an HTML body, it produces a multipart/alternative email that carries both representations. This example sets an HTML body, adds a plain-text alternative, and prints the alternative count.

Background: This is the companion to AddHtmlAlternativeBody. A polished email provides both an HTML body (for rich display) and a plain-text fallback, and the receiving client picks whichever it prefers. Including a real plain-text alternative — rather than letting the HTML stand alone — improves accessibility, helps with spam scoring, and guarantees the message is readable in text-only environments.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the AddPlainTextAlternativeBody method, which adds a plain-text alternative
# body.  Combined with an HTML body, this produces a multipart/alternative email offering
# both representations of the same content.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('HTML with a plain-text alternative');

# Set an HTML body.
$email->SetHtmlBody('<html><body><b>This is the HTML version.</b></body></html>');

# Add a plain-text alternative.
$email->AddPlainTextAlternativeBody('This is the plain-text version.');

print 'NumAlternatives = ', $email->NumAlternatives, "\n";