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Clear an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Clear method, which removes the current message content — recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded messages — leaving an empty email object. This example builds a message with a recipient and attachment, clears it, and prints the counts before and after.

Background: Reusing a single Email object across many operations is efficient, but leftover state from a previous message could leak into the next. Clear resets the object completely, giving you a clean slate — the safe way to start a fresh message without allocating a new object.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

#  Demonstrates the Clear method, which removes the current message content, including
#  recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded
#  messages -- leaving an empty email object.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "A message"
$email.Body = "Some body text."
$email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
$email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

$("NumTo before clear = " + $email.NumTo)
$("NumAttachments before clear = " + $email.NumAttachments)

#  Remove all content, resetting the email object.
$email.Clear()

$("NumTo after clear = " + $email.NumTo)
$("NumAttachments after clear = " + $email.NumAttachments)