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Load an Email Body from a File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file. The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes. This example loads a plain-text body as utf-8.

Background: Message bodies are often authored and stored as separate files — a marketing team might maintain an HTML template, or a script might generate a text body on the fly. LoadBodyFromFile reads such a file straight into the email, with the isHtml flag telling Chilkat whether to treat it as an HTML or plain-text body and the charset ensuring non-ASCII characters decode correctly.

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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Email

li_Success = 0

//  Demonstrates the LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file.
//  The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a
//  plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes.

loo_Email = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Email.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Email
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
loo_Email.Subject = "Body loaded from a file"

//  Load a plain-text body (isHtml = false) using the utf-8 charset.
li_Success = loo_Email.LoadBodyFromFile("qa_data/txt/body.txt",0,"utf-8")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Email.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Email
    return
end if

Write-Debug loo_Email.Body

//  Note: The path "qa_data/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
//  relative to the current working directory of the running application.


destroy loo_Email